By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 23 November 2023 Who gets a place at the negotiating table at the COP, and get to make their voice heard? Photo: UN Climate Change/Kiara Worth. The COP climate meetings are organised in a way that benefits richer and larger countries at the expense of smaller and poorer countries, according to a new study from LUCSUS and the U

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/un-climate-meetings-organised-way-benefits-richer-larger-countries - 2025-05-13

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 4 December 2023 LUCSUS researchers are participating in several events and activities at the UN Climate Change Conference, COP28, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, between 30 Nov - 12 Dec 2023. Accredited researchers from LUCSUS at COP28 Researchers participating on-site:Emily BoydGuy JacksonResearchers p

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-cop28 - 2025-05-13

Published 3 February 2017 Is water one of the world’s most dangerous substances? Is climate change a threat to national security? How does turbulence, national and international, affect governance of sustainability? These are some of the topics that will be discussed as part of LUCSUS’ involvement in the Lund University 350th anniversary celebration.LUCSUS’ programme of activities  include both ce

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-and-lund-university-350th-celebrations - 2025-05-13

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 6 December 2023 It is important that we focus on reducing carbon dioxide emissions and that we do not use the fund as an excuse to do nothing. The fund needs to address the losses and damages that are already occurring, says Emily Boyd. Photo: UNFCCC COP27. Kiara Worth. On the first day of the COP28 climate change conference i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/many-questions-remain-new-loss-and-damage-fund-formally-established-cop28 - 2025-05-13

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 30 June 2020 Flooding in India. Image credit: Asian Development Bank It feels almost shameful to admit, but climate change has always felt like something abstract and far away. Of course, I know that climate change is happening. I can explain the greenhouse effect. I even use climate change as an argument fo

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-when-climate-change-becomes-personal-reflection-researching-non-economic-loss-and-damage - 2025-05-13

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 13 July 2020 The UN Climate Change Conferences regularly fail to adequately address climate change. Does this relate to how the conferences are designed and organised? Could developing a different culture of cooperation and communication help to make progress? Which mindsets and associated inner qualities mi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sustainable-climate-action-requires-new-mindsets - 2025-05-13

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 17 August 2020 Plastic art often illustrates problems such as littering or disposable use. Image: Pixabay. A wound in nature, cheap rubbish and dangerous for animals and humans. This is how plastic is presented in visual art and photography around the world, finds a new study. But according to the researchers, some problems ar

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/art-plastics-often-portrayed-waste-and-littering - 2025-05-13

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 31 August 2020 Tree plantations. Mostphotos. Large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR), is increasingly seen as a key component of climate change mitigation pathways that limit warming to 1.5C or 2C.  CDR approaches tend to be frames as novel and untested, and mostly focuses on hypothetical future scenarios.

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/negative-emissions-and-long-history-carbon-removal - 2025-05-13

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 4 September 2020 Previous forest fires in the Amazon. Photo: markhillary/flickr. The official figures for forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon in August 2020 show a slight decrease from last year. But researchers at the Brazil's Space Research Institute, Inpe, warn that data may need to be corrected so much that they instead r

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researcher-torsten-krause-comments-fires-brazilian-amazon-august-2020 - 2025-05-13

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 4 September 2020 Murray Scown and Kimberly Nicholas, researchers at LUCSUS, have analysed in detail how EU agricultural subsidies flow down to the local level. The new data show that most income support payments go to intensively farmed regions already above median EU income, while climate-friendly and biodiverse farming regio

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-analyse-how-billions-eu-farming-funding-subsidies-are-being-spent - 2025-05-13

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von arnold) - published 7 September 2020 LUCSUS researchers will be part of the upcoming 2020 Virtual Forum on Earth System Governance, where they will be organising a session on migration and climate change. LUCSUS and the University of Liége will be facilitating an innovative session on 16th of September, 2020 at 4:00 PM - 5:30 P

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/2020-virtual-forum-earth-system-governance - 2025-05-13

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 8 September 2020 Photo: Pixabay. Sara Ullström, PhD in Sustainability Science, will present her work at a first seminar on 17th September. We asked her to explain what her research within the project, The takeoff of staying on the ground, is about. What do you explore in your PhD? My research investigates the questioning of hi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-sara-ullstrom-studies-mobilisation-and-voluntary-action-connected-low-carbon-ways-life - 2025-05-13

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 8 September 2020 In her first year seminar on 17th September, Kelly Dorkenoo, PhD at LUCSUS, will highlight her research on negative impacts of climate change in Cambodia. She aims to identify potential pathways to address disproportionate losses and damages from climate change at different levels in society.  What is your res

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-kelly-dorkenoo-focuses-negative-impacts-climate-change-cambodia - 2025-05-13

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 5 October 2020 Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson. Negative emission technologies, or large scale carbon dioxide removal, are increasingly seen as key to slow or halt climate change. Researchers now warn that they are fraught with uncertainties, and raise questions about land use, justice and power. Wim Carton, researcher at Lund

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/uncertain-future-negative-emission-technologies - 2025-05-13

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 6 October 2020 LUCSUS organises two events at the Future week at Lund University, discussing the future of social movements and the future of traveling, in the light of both the climate crisis and the coronavirus pandemic. The events will take place both onsite and online. 14 October 15.00-16.00:  The future

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lund-university-future-week-12-18-october - 2025-05-13

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 29 September 2020 LUCSUS has been awarded SEK 20 million for a new research project aimed at mobilising farmer organisations for sustainable agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. The project is one of eleven new research projects, with a focus on Agenda 2030, that have been awarded funding in one of Formas’ big

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-receives-grant-sek-20-million-realise-global-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-05-13

By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (cecilia von Arnold) - published 7 October 2020 How can the climate movement continue its struggle and be a force for change in the light of other current crises such as social and economic injustices, inequalities and pandemics? Mine Islar, researcher at LUCSUS, says that joining forces with other causes and movements are one way forward,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-will-climate-movements-continue-shape-future - 2025-05-13

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 8 October 2020 New research highlights how coastal planning and environmental restoration overlook social needs, cultural claims and existing vulnerabilities in Louisiana, USA. New research highlights how coastal planning and environmental restoration overlook social needs, cultural claims and existing vulnerabilities. Using L

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/environmental-claims-and-social-needs-clash-louisianas-coastal-wetlands - 2025-05-13

By Cecolia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 2 November 2020 Podcast: What role do mindsets play in sustainability and climate action? LUCSUS has established new cooperation in the context of the Inner Green Deal Initiative. The aim is to research and support personal qualities and methods that can enable the activation of sustainable climate action. T

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-addresses-human-dimension-climate-action - 2025-05-13

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 1 November 2020 The ethnographic study highlights how peasants without legal land titles experience less access to land and water after the FARC’s retreat due to the return of landowners, the legal arrangements about ownership of the land. Photo: Laura Betancur Alarcón. New article by LUCSUS researcher Torsten Krause and LUMES

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/land-and-water-access-changes-colombian-andes-during-post-conflict - 2025-05-13