Climate change is one reason malaria is on the rise in some parts of the world, new research finds, but other factors such as migration and land-use changes are likely also at play. The research, published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, aims to sort out contradictions that have emerged as scientists try to understand [...]

Launched in December 2007 by the Swedish government and financed by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the work of the RCC (Commission on Climate Change and Development) based on four objectives:
- Identify and analyze the determinants of poor countries’ commitment to a policy to reduce climate risks consistent with their development;
- Discuss how best [...]

Sweden is ready to assume the presidency of the EU. With the economic slowdown in the world, the negotiations on climate change and the approach of major reforms in the institutions of the EU, the six-month presidency promises to be intense. From 1st July until the end of the year, Sweden will carry out these [...]

The world is facing a number of severe and world-wide challenges, like the climate change, water scarcity, pandemics, financial crisis and others still unknown are to come. These have to be met in world-encompassing co-operation. How should Europe take its share of such border-unlimited challenges?  Can Europe turn such Grand Challenges to opportunities for its [...]