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Photo: Philipp Montenegro On 11th of June, Emma Johnson successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled "Towards Circular Business Models for Sustainability: Exploring Innovation, Implementation, & Environmental Impact." The faculty opponent was Professor Anna Öhrwall Rönnbäck from Luleå University of Technology. Members of the Examination Committee were Professor Fenna Blomsma from Hamburg Univ

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/emma-johnson-has-successfully-defended-her-doctoral-degree - 2025-09-15

IIIEE researcher Alvar Palm On 29 March, IIIEE researcher Alvar Palm published a debate article on VAT and second hand: "Slopa momsen på second hand". The article was published in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researcher-alvar-palm-debate-article-svenska-dagbladet - 2025-09-15

Photo: Astrakanimages This year, Lund University climbed three spots higher than last year making it Sweden’s top-ranked university. Lund University continues to score high in the QS World University Rankings 2026 - now ranked 72nd globally.QS has evaluated over 8,400 institutions, ranking 1,501. Lund has consistently placed among the world’s top 100 universities and has advanced 23 spots in three

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lund-university-continues-climb-international-university-rankings - 2025-09-15

AI offers powerful tools to support this transformation across sectors such as energy, industry, consumption, and urban development. The IIIEE is now looking for an Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) in AI for Sustainable Transformation. Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Transformation is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary research field that plays a critical role in addressing

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/soon-closing-call-assistant-professor-ai-sustainable-transformation - 2025-09-15

The 32nd batch of our EMP programme (Master in Environmental Management and Policy) has arrived! They now begin their journey at the IIIEE. The group consists of  33 students from various parts of the world including Indonesia, China, Germany, Finland, Thailand, India, US, Italy, Lithuania, Denmark, France, Korea, Brazil, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, UK, Sweden, South Africa and Ireland. Together th

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-batch-32-our-emp-programme - 2025-09-15

Photo: Håkan Rodhe The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has finalised the selection of authors for its Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) and two of the appointed authors are from IIIEE. Among the 664 international experts chosen, ten are based in Sweden, including two researchers from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University.Profes

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/two-iiiee-researchers-appointed-ipccs-seventh-assessment-report - 2025-09-15

Photo: Charlotte Leire We are celebrating a milestone with MESPOM B20 arriving to Lund! This week we welcome the anniversary group of MESPOM-students – Batch 20! The group has spent their first year at CEU in Vienna and Uof Aegean on Lesvos and are now here for business & policy courses and to prepare for their thesis projects that they will do in Spring. We are delighted to have this skilled grou

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/anniversary-mespom-batch-has-arrived - 2025-09-15

IIIEE researcher held a presentation at Roads to the Future focusing on the findings from a recent publication "Circular Economy Integration in Smart Grids: A Nexus for Sustainability | Circular Economy and Sustainability". On 27th of August, Professor Carl Dalhammar gave a presentation titled 'Towards circular vehicles and circular grids: Recent developments in Europe' at Roads to the Future, arr

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-can-smart-grids-can-integrate-ce-considerations - 2025-09-15

Nora Smedby defends her Doctoral thesis on 8 April On 8 April 2016, Nora Smedby at the IIIEE will defend her Doctoral thesis with the title: Local Environmental Governance: Assessing proactive initiatives in building energy efficiency.Oponent is Professor Matthew J. Hoffmann and supervisor is Professor Lena NeijView press release here (Swedish only) 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-8-april - 2025-09-15

Photo: Johan Persson The 2015 Annual Report of the IIIEE has been completed! Please view the full report here: Annual Report 2015

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/2015-annual-report - 2025-09-15

Nora Smedby Photo: Håkan Rodhe On 8 April, IIIEE researcher Nora Smedby defended her Ph.D. thesis Local environmental governance: Assessing proactive initiatives in building energy efficiency. An interview in Swedish was made with Nora in connection to her thesis defence, see below:Published: 08/04/2016Så kan kommuner driva på omställningen till energieffektiva byggnader– Det är en enorm utmaning

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/interview-iiiee-researcher-nora-smedby - 2025-09-15

The IIIEE is offering a Postdoctoral position in the area of economics focusing on environmental management and policy.Last application date: 29 April 2016More information here

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/postdoctoral-position-iiiee - 2025-09-15

New Special Volume on Advancing Sustainable SolutionsGuest editors: Kes McCormick, Lena Neij, Oksana Mont, Chris Ryan, Håkan Rodhe & Renato OrsatoSustainable solutions are needed to drive a profound industrial and societal transformation towards a sustainable, low-carbon, resilient, equitable and prosperous future. This Special Volume of the Journal of Cleaner Production addresses possibilities an

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-special-volume-advancing-sustainable-solutions - 2025-09-15

Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities Both our Greening the Economy MOOCs start new 5-week sessions on Monday 25 April - join 1000s that are learning about lessons from Scandinavia and sustainable cities!Lessons from ScandinaviaHow can we live a good life on one planet with over seven billion people? This course explores greening the economy on four levels – individual, business, city, and nati

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/greening-economy-moocs-start-new-5-week-sessions-monday-25-april - 2025-09-15

Luis Mundaca gave a keynote speech on the ‘Climate Paris Agreement’ at the University of Seville, Spain.On 16 March, at the IX Int’l Seminar on Economics and the Environment, Associate Professor Luis Mundaca at the IIIEE talked about the outcomes and challenges associated with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. His presentation, titled ‘The Climate Paris Agreement: not a destination but a chal

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/luis-mundaca-gave-keynote-speech-climate-paris-agreement-university-seville - 2025-09-15

Professor Oksana Mont Photo: Kennet Ruona Urban sharing of assets, spaces and skills has emerged as a promising future solution to sustainability challenges faced by cities. It is also the subject of a new project by Oksana Mont, professor in sustainable consumption and production at IIIEE, who recently received the Swedish Foundations’ Starting Grant – a new grant intended for the most talented y

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urban-sharing-promising-future-solution-sustainability-challenges-cities - 2025-09-15

Presentations by master students in the IIIEE Aula Photo: Håkan Rodhe New business model for electric trucks at Volvo, renewable electricity for refugee camps in Jordan or mobile apps for coffee farmers in Tanzania to adapt to climate change? Today on 29 April, the final year master students at the IIIEE present their findings from client projects across the globe. Many interesting topics presente

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/master-students-present-their-client-projects-across-globe - 2025-09-15

Mikael Backman right in the photo. On 26 April Mikael Backman participated in a TV-broadcast presenting the planned combined heat and power (CHP) and Biogas plants in Zabrze. The latter is entirely a project based on research and development performed by EMP students (Environmental Management and Policy programme) and staff, in the framework of the Swedish-Polish Sustainable Energy Platform at the

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/renewable-energy-projects-poland - 2025-09-15

A new project integrating cities and universities to advance sustainable building and planning Swedish municipalities play a key role in sustainable building and planning. However, research has proven to be difficult to transfer from universities to practice. From 2016, three universities located in Skåne, SLU Alnarp (project leader), Lund University (IIIEE and LTH) and Malmö University, have a jo

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/when-municipalities-set-research-agenda - 2025-09-15

Associate Professor Luis Mundaca shaking hands with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during the Climate Action Week 2016 in Washington DC. Photo: Luis Cifuentes Associate Professor and IPCC Lead Author Luis Mundaca participated in high-level meetings during Climate Action Week 2016 in the United States, May 2-6. He first participated in the Universitas 21 Workshop ‘Informing Climate Action 2016’ a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/associate-professor-luis-mundaca-high-level-meetings-during-climate-action-week-2016 - 2025-09-15