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Researchers at the Pufendorf Institute are working together in a Theme about Invasive Alien Plants, and are interested in finding out how the public, as well as experts, regard different plants in private gardens as well as in public spaces. Why are certain plants defined as more desirable than others, by whom, and how? Researchers now want to get help from the public to get a better understanding

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/researchers-want-know-how-public-perceive-invasive-alien-plants - 2025-12-13

How can previous warm periods in the ocean help us better understand the ongoing climate change? PhD student Sha Ni defends her dissertation at CEC this week with fossil findings that can improve the knowledge of the current global warming. Congratulations on your dissertation coming up! How would you describe your research to people unfamiliar with your field? “I study the past climate conditions

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/past-ocean-conditions-give-clues-marine-environmental-changes - 2025-12-13

The forest investigation recently submitted to the Swedish government gives suggestions on creating synergies between international and national commitments on biodiversity and a growing circular bioeconomy. A new report by CEC researchers concludes that forests and forestry also play multiple, key roles for climate change mitigation. The new report provides knowledge relevant for land users and p

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forestry-plays-key-role-swedens-climate-change-mitigation - 2025-12-13

CEC starts 2021 with a new name, a new Director, and a new leadership organisation. Yet, CEC will continue its work with research, education and collaboration, across subject boundaries, to promote sustainable development. The new organisation with separate Director and Chair of the Board will strengthen CEC. The Director will be supported by four Assistant Directors focusing on undergraduate educ

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-year-new-name-new-director-and-new-organisation-cec - 2025-12-13

2020 will be remembered as the year when the coronavirus paralysed the world. At the same time, the negative effect of climate change became increasingly apparent, and the pleas to listen to the scientist and the calls for action became even more urgent. What changes for the climate do researchers want to see in 2021? Researchers in climate and sustainability at Lund University list their hopes an

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-researchers-wish-list-2021 - 2025-12-13

What is the role of urban mining for sustainability? Getting back resources from waste products is essential, but not enough. IIIEE researcher Jessika Luth Richter was interviewed by BBC radio about urban mining. The main messages from stakeholders and researchers are that there is much potential for urban mining and in many cases waste products are rich sources for rare metals that are needed for

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/can-urban-mining-save-planet - 2025-12-13

Lund was the first municipality to create a local climate policy council in 2018. The council consists of researchers from Lund University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Every year the council hands over a report to the municipal board and on May 4 Professor Lena Neij from the IIIEE presented the 2022 report. The council reviews Lund’s work with climate impact and reduction o

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/climate-report-2022-presented-lund-municipality - 2025-12-13

The Lund University Agenda 2030 Award was handed out for the first time at a ceremony in Lund on May 5. The award wants to promote innovative and interdisciplinary research on sustainable development by early career scholars at the university. Steven Curtis, Sofie Sandin Lompar, Frans Libertson, Katherine Shabb and Karolina Södergren received an honorary mention for their innovative approach of sh

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-podcast-advancing-sustainable-solutions-receives-honorary-mention - 2025-12-13

How do we get access to work, meetings, education, shopping, entertainment, healthcare? Today we can get access to many of these things digitally at a distance, reducing our need for travel and offering a preventative and potentially transformative solution to our transport problems. But what are the actual effects from digitalization on transport? What effects will we see in the "new normal", now

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/will-digital-services-make-us-travel-less - 2025-12-13

Urban Living Labs: Visiting researcher James Evans in search of success factors Can urban living labs create more sustainable urban development? Manchester researcher James Evans and colleagues at the IIIEE are studying and comparing four Scandinavian cases, seeking common drivers of success – and of failure.  – Today, cities face the enormous challenge of climate change and are searching for effe

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-visiting-iiiee-researcher-james-evans - 2025-12-13

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and the City of Malmö partnered with the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics and the City Futures Academy to support capacity building and lifelong learning of participants at the ICLEI World Congress 2021 – 2022. At the event, Kes McCormick in collaboration with the Coffee Break film team organised interviews with a variety o

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-iclei-world-congress-filming-and-podcasting-capacity-building-and-lifelong-learning - 2025-12-13

Join an online interactive event on May 25, moderated by Professor Lena Neij from the IIIEE. A scientific conversation on the green transition with a panel of specialists in the field. Scan the QR code or use this link to read more and register

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/energy-transition-current-crisis-opportunity-reversion - 2025-12-13

Jenny Palm and Ellen Boije af Gennäs Erre have published a policy brief, providing a summary on the current legislation concerning energy communities in Sweden. Based on the Renewable energy directive (2018/2001) the Energy Market Inspectorate proposed a bill that stated that energy communities should be economic associations with a protected name that indicates that they are energy communities. T

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/policy-brief-energy-communities-sweden - 2025-12-13

Businesses are an essential driver for sustainability, yet managers struggle to make decisions about their business model that actually improve their sustainability performance. In this episode, we meet Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Henning Breuer, and Lorenzo Massa, authors of the new book called ‘Sustainable Business Model Design’. They introduce the concept of sustainable business model patterns, to s

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-sustainable-business-model-design-patterns-make-sustainability-work - 2025-12-13

Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Getting the most out of Urban Living Labs A new trans-European project aims to better define and evaluate the concept of Urban Living Labs. One goal is to understand what can be shared and learned in order to advance urban sustainability transitions.Across Europe, so-called Urban Living Labs are being developed as a response to the need to understand

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-kes-mccormick - 2025-12-13

Stockholm+50 takes place June 2-3, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the UN Environmental Programme. The ambition is to commemorate the jubilee and 50 years of global environmental action but also to step up the pace of the transition to a more sustainable future. One paper, written together with researchers at KTH in Stockholm, is titled “Making governance better for fair and sustainable consum

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/carl-dalhammar-contributes-background-reports-stockholm50-conference - 2025-12-13

As part of current efforts to work towards sustainable development, find solutions to curb greenhouse gas emissions, and adapt cities to the effects of climate change, such as floods and extreme heat, there are high hopes that nature-based solutions (NBS) can support the transformation needed. Based on the knowledge that implementation of NBS is still emerging and constrained by various barriers,

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/implementation-nature-based-solutions-cities-requires-collaboration-learning-and-co-production - 2025-12-13

Over 280 cities from the entire world participated and Lund was elected winner, together with Bogotá. Lund has ambitious climate goals and programmes and the Climate Policy Council reviews Lund’s work with climate impact. Read more about the award and how Lund is working with climate issues: WWF press release (in Swedish) More about Lund Climate Policy Council 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lund-awarded-first-place-wwf-one-planet-city-challenge - 2025-12-13

Growing attention is being given to the role of citizens’ political agency in the development of low-carbon transport systems. In a newly published paper, we reveal the complex, intertwined nature of multiple factors explaining this phenomenon, including trust. Using Sweden as a case study, the ‘Behavioural Insights Lab for Sustainable Energy Use and Rapid Decarbonisation’ at the IIIEE, in collabo

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/low-carbon-transport-systems-and-public-engagement-should-we-trust-mistrust - 2025-12-13

The programmes are carried out with financial support from the Swedish Institute, which means they are free of charge for you. They will be conducted part-time and largely online, with either a visit to Sweden or mentoring and/or workshops in the participants’ countries and/or region. Human Rights and Gender Equality in Climate and Disaster Displacement focuses on making Freetown, Addis Ababa and

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/open-applications-three-agenda-2030-capacity-development-programmes - 2025-12-13