Denmark News

Denmarka s Prince Joachim inaugurated the Inbicon biomass biorefinery in Kalundborg, Denmark, where ethanol will be produced from straw.

While many other destinations in Europe are still licking their wounds over a disappointing summer season, Denmark posted a 5.8% increase in overnights from the U.S. in August compared with August 2008, according to official tourism agency VisitDenmark.

The U.N. climate chief has a message for naysayers about the Copenhagen climate conference next month: It will succeed.Yvo De Boer, the U.N. official who is shepherding the talks, sought to assure reporters Thursday that the long-anticipated United Nations-led meeting Dec.

EDITOR'S NOTE: It's feared that at next month's environmental conference in Copenhagen that Barak Obama will sign away America's sovereignty and embroil us in a "new world order" from which we will never extract ourselves .

Denmark Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon join President of France Nicolas Sarkozy as special guests of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Port-of-Spain from November 27 to 29.

Masanobu Fukuoka would have been proud of this. This is indeed an "one-straw revolution" towards a greener planet.

Geography * Area: 43,094 sq. km. ; slightly smaller than Vermont and New Hampshire combined.

Denmark's premier indicated Tuesday he expected the United States to bring specific pledges to cut greenhouse gases to next month's climate change conference.

Beijing - US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, on Tuesday promised a "vigorous response" to climate change and said they would cooperate to rescue key global talks on reductions of carbon emissions in Copenhagen early next month.

Copenhagen may lack the glamour of London, Paris or Rome, but the discerning traveler can find just as rich a travel experience in this cosmopolitan city.

Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard, right, with Head of the U.N. climate change secretariat Yvo de Boer, at the start of a two-day closed meeting of climate negotiators from nearly 40 countries who are preparing for the Copenhagen U.N. summit that starts on Dec.

AN OXFAM worker who has experienced the effects of climate change first-hand will today set off for the Copenhagen summit - on foot.

More than half the population does not believe climate change has been caused by humans.

U.S. President Barack Obama has backed a plan by the host of next month's climate change talks in Copenhagen to seek a political deal and leave legally binding decisions for later, a U.S. official said on Sunday.

Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen on Thursday officially invited 191 heads of state and government to the United Nations' climate summit in Copenhagen in December, his office said in a statement.

The breast cancer battle doesn't end after treatment is completed. A new study shows almost 50 percent of women experience pain up to three years after treatment, some every day.

President Barack Obama's delay in deciding U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan has found an echo chamber in Europe, where coalition leaders in NATO are weighing whether to send more help or bow to public demands for a speedy exit.

Next month's climate change summit in Copenhagen is not likely to produce a legally binding treaty to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that are widely blamed for global warming, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday.

Denmark's premier sent invitations Thursday asking 191 world leaders to attend next month's U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen, saying their presence was "pivotal" to its success.

Nationa s leading pharmaceutical companya s closing of production plant in Kalundborg affects over 300 jobs Pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk is shutting down one of its insulin-producing facilities in the Zealand town of Kalundborg, a move that will result in 330 positions being eliminated, reported public broadcaster DR.