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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On the 5th of December 2019, BECC organized a full day of science-to-policy discussions in cooperation with the thematic collaboration initiative LU Land, on the topic of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which is currently undergoing a reform. The CAP is a strong shaping force of European land use practices, a

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/report-symposium-working-together-environmentally-ambitious-evidence-based-agricultural-policy - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. BECC (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate) welcomes proposals for research funding within the vision and aims of BECC for the years 2020-21. BECC (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate) welcomes proposals for research funding within the vision and aims of BECC for the years 20

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/call-proposals-research-funding-becc - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Different aspects of forest governance were presented as well as landscape approaches to achieve multiple goals were discussed and exemplified. Different aspects of forest governance were presented in the morning by three invited speakers, Erik Sollander from the Swedish Forest Agency, Carina Keskitalo from Umeå Unive

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/forest-governance-meet-global-challenges - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. During a one-day symposium in Gothenburg peatland was the theme, now you may follow the work organized and carried out by BECC researchers in several Swedish media. Peatland is a major questionmark in the combat of climate change. Skogaryd is an infrastructure of BECC and at the research station researcher within the

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/focus-peatland - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We appreciate your participation in the online conference, which was a very successful joining of about 100 participants. April 23 and 24 were two very rewarding days, filled with interesting sessions, poster presentations, office yoga, group discussions, as well as fruitful conversations and sharing of expertise. The

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/thank-you-participating-becc-merge-spring-meeting-online-science-says-conference - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Rwanda, the land of a thousand hills, depends on its forests and trees that protect soil fertility, preserve biodiversity, help to cope with climate change and provide fuel for cooking. But the forests used to be much vaster.” Eric Mirindi Dusenge, BECC researcher at University of Gothenburg, is part of a project to

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/tropical-montane-forests-warming-world - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. ClimBEco’s annual summer meeting was held this August over two consecutive days, with both online and in-person meetings in Lund, Malmö and Gothenburg. The summer meeting is one of the highlights of our graduate school, where current PhD students can meet, network and learn more about an interdisciplinary topic. This

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-summer-meeting - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The theme of the ClimBEco annual meeting was “Multidisciplinary learning environments – seizing their opportunities and avoiding their pitfalls”. After an icebreaker that included seeing some sweet ‘corona-pets’ in the screens, we brought ourselves onto the level of metaphysics and the multiple ways of knowing about t

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-winter-meeting-2021 - 2026-06-19

Photochemical smog, including tropospheric ozone and fine particles, is an important environmental concern over large parts of the world with strong connections to climate change climate policies. Especially in densely populated regions of the world with fast growing economies, such as China and India, there is a great risk for rising levels of air pollutants such as ozone with important environme

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/smog-ozone-and-particles-beijing-becc-focus - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. BECC researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered the individual traits of fungi, and how their hyphae – that is, the fungal threads that grow in soil - behave very differently as they navigate through the earth’s microscopic labyrinths. The study was performed in a lab environment, and the underground sys

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/soldiers-snakes-and-marathon-runners-hidden-world-fungi - 2026-06-19

The movie "The Bee Effect" is a movie about pollinators, the changes in the agricultural landscape and human impact. Researcher Maj Rundlöf is one of the interviewed researchers in the movie, which can be seen on SVT Play. About the movie:"In recent years there has been a dramatic reduction of pollinators, mainly due to pesticides, diseases and changes in the agricultural landscape. If this trend

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/bee-effect-movie-about-pollinators-and-human-influence - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Swedish government has on 20 May 2021 decided on an assignment to the Swedish Forestry Agency to start re-wetting drained peatlands to reduce the amount of climate gases. This decision is based on the government inquiry “Vägen till en klimatpositiv framtid” (SOU2020:4). Findings from BECC-researchers, among others

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/assignment-swedish-forestry-agency-start-re-wetting-drained-peatlands - 2026-06-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The forest is currently at the centre of an intense debate. It concerns, in simplified terms, which climate benefits the forest can provide, either by sequestering carbon in standing forest, or by being used to substitute fossil fuels and fossil-intensive materials. In a new literature review from the Centre for Envir

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/climate-benefits-forest-balancing-act-prioritisation - 2026-06-19

They become smaller as urbanisation increases. Troublesome, according to researcher Helena Hanson, because urban private gardens affect both cities’ biodiversity and human wellbeing by functioning as social green spaces. Now she strikes a blow for gardens in the urban planning. Green spaces, such as parks and allotment gardens, have a major impact on our physical and mental health and wellbeing –

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/urban-private-gardens-promote-biodiversity - 2026-06-19

Two Lund University climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC representative, talk about what comes next following the recent IPCC report. What do you view as the next steps following what was concluded in the IPCC report? Kimberly: Something the report makes absolutely clear is that to stop warming, hum

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/what-comes-next-after-ipcc-climate-change-report - 2026-06-19

Climate change and biodiversity losses have long been addressed in parallel organisations. Now the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are launching the first global report that integrates the two issues. This is a welcome and much needed move, according to three researchers at the Univ

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-report-measures-support-both-climate-and-biodiversity - 2026-06-19

This year's Annual meeting: Ecosystem-based climate mitigation and adaptation ​Submit your title and abstract (250 words) by 15th of October. ​ Call for presentations 4 talks will be selected Length: 10 minutes incl. questions ​Submit your title and abstract (250 words) by 15th of October. Call for posters Any new or existing posters of past and future BECC activities within the remit of the confe

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/call-presentations-and-posters-becc-annual-meeting-2021 - 2026-06-19

At this ClimBEco summer meeting, mostly held online but with parallel in-person workshops in Gothenburg, Lund and Malmö, was themed around one of humanities ultimate equalizers; that of food. The way we produce, move and use food globally has important implications on just about every challenge we currently face in the world, reflected in the overall title of the summer meeting. To start off the e

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-summer-meeting-2021-food-andeverything-else - 2026-06-19

Welcome to Professor Nina Buchmann from the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zürich. The main research topics of Nina Buchmann include (1) plant and ecosystem physiology, (2) biogeochemistry of terrestrial ecosystems, i.e., forest, grassland and cropland, particularly the response of soil and ecosystem carbon, nitrogen and water dynamics to climatic conditions and management regi

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-guest-researchers-professor-nina-buchmann-and-associated-professor-oliver-sonnentag - 2026-06-19

Professor Adam Hitchcock is one of the most renown and experienced researchers in x-ray adsorption microscopy and especially soft X-ray transmission microscopy (STXM). He has been a full professor at the department of Chemistry at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario since 1989.  A major part of his work is the development of new experimental techniques based on X-ray absorption phenomena and

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-guest-researcher-professor-adam-hitchcock - 2026-06-19