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What about the potentially unwanted Christmas gifts? The products that are returned to the seller in e-commerce are likely to be thrown away instead of being resold. This is a research finding that has been picked up and shared in Swedish radio, just in time for Christmas. For some type of consumer products such as clothing and small electronics reselling returned articles is more expensive than p

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/media-attention-unused-products-going-straight-waste - 2025-11-19

The International Energy Agency releases a Special Report on Clean Energy Innovation on Thursday, 2 July. Professor Lena Neij from the IIIEE Policy analysis team participated in the process.The new report identifies the critical areas where accelerated innovation is urgently needed if countries and companies are to meet their ambitions for net-zero emissions.This special report is the first report

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/launch-ieas-special-report-clean-energy-innovation - 2025-11-19

IIIEE Phd Student Steven Kane Curtis presented at the 5th International (and Virtual) Conference on New Business Models on 1-2 July 2020. The conference was hosted by Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, with the theme to explore the role of business models in transition. Among the nearly 100 presenters, Steven was awarded the award for “Best Presenter”. In his presentation, he shared

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/phd-student-steven-curtis-receives-best-presenter-award-new-business-models-conference - 2025-11-19

City Report no. 2: "Urban Sharing in Toronto" The Urban Sharing Team at IIIEE, lead by Principal Investigator Prof. Oksana Mont, has published their second City Report for the Urban Sharing research programme.“Urban Sharing in Toronto” explores the landscape of the sharing economy in the city context. This research is a result of a Mobile Research Lab conducted in the autumn 2019. Specific focus i

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-urban-sharing-research-team - 2025-11-19

IIIEE Professor Oksana Mont was interviewed by Kristianstadsbladet about the climate crisis and sustainable consumption management.Read the article here

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/prof-oksana-mont-kristianstadsbladet - 2025-11-19

"Agency and capacity in the planning and design phase of building renovations" Postdoctoral fellow Katharina Reindl has published a new article in Energy Efficiency.Abstract:The building sector is a large energy consumer and is responsible for high CO2 emissions; hence, improving the energy performance of buildings is vital. Building renovations open opportunities to improve their energy performan

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-katharina-reindl - 2025-11-19

Funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, the IIIEE at Lund University in collaboration with researchers at Linköping University are launching a new project called Massive Urban Missions (MUM) on advancing and delivering climate neutral cities. Associate Professor Kes McCormick and Professor Jenny Palm are the researchers at the IIIEE leading the activities. Two doctoral researchers will be appointed a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-launches-new-project-massive-urban-missions - 2025-11-19

New publications, an online summit, best presenter award, and more.Check out our latest Newsletter here

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/summer-newsletter-iiiee - 2025-11-19

The post-doctoral candidate will work in the area of policy analysis related to the Circular Economy. The post-doctoral candidate will contribute to the development of knowledge, and policy analysis addressing policies to further Circular Economy developments, with a special focus on policies as drivers and barriers for Circular Business Models. Read more about the position here

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-postdoctoral-position - 2025-11-19

Maria Jäppinen awarded by ISWA Young Professionals Group Our MSC graduate Maria Jäppinen participated in the 3rd ISWA YPG Online Conference on the 17th and 18th of July 2020. The theme of the conference was “Transition to a Circular Economy: Innovation and sustainability in waste management systems”. In an abstract competition for young researchers, Maria was awarded first price for her presentati

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/msc-graduate-gains-double-awards - 2025-11-19

Read more about the position here

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/we-are-hiring-phd-student-circular-business-value - 2025-11-19

IIIEE, represented by Professor Jenny Palm, together with the solar cell association Solar Region and the City of Malmö will host a joint online workshop on solar cells.The focus of the workshop is on solar cells and how they are contributing to the realisation of Malmö's vision of a sustainable city district in Sege Park. The event will take place on Thursday the 3rd September, 9.30-12.00 in Micr

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-participates-online-workshop-solar-cells - 2025-11-19

The Urban Sharing Team at IIIEE, lead by Principal Investigator Prof. Oksana Mont, has published their third snapshot for the Urban Sharing research programme.“Urban Sharing in Shanghai” explores the landscape of the sharing economy in the city context. The snapshot is a first outcome of the data collection conducted in the spring 2020. The snapshot highlights the following themes: Drivers for sha

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-output-urban-sharing-research-team - 2025-11-19

IIIEE Researchers Steven Kane Curtis, Oksana Mont, and Jagdeep Singh published a new article in PLOS ONE, in collaboration with Alexandra Kessler from the Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP). The article synthesizes the potential social impacts of sharing platforms and proposes a systematic framework to assess these impacts at an organizational level. The social i

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-social-impacts-sharing-platforms - 2025-11-19

Lunds universitets Hållbarhetsforum, Naturskyddsföreningen och Lunds Stadsbibliotek bjuder in till föreläsningar på temat klimat, miljö och hållbarhet. FöreläsningKlimatkrisen har under året kommit i skuggan av den förödande spridningen av Covid-19. Ändå har många debattörer och forskare hävdat att pandemin skulle kunna sätta fart på omställningen till ett hållbart samhälle. Genom klokt riktade st

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/pandemin-och-klimatomstallningen - 2025-11-19

On October 8 the IIIEE organized the event City Futures Summit, an online webinar with keynote speakers from Australia, Chile and Sweden around sustainable urban transformation and the missions approach. On October 8 the IIIEE organized the event "City Futures Summit", an online webinar with keynote speakers from Australia, Chile and Sweden around sustainable urban transformation and the missions

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/city-futures-summit - 2025-11-19

Yuliya Voytenko Palgan together with the support from the Urban Sharing team at the IIIEE, Lund University, has developed a blog; The World of Urban Sharing. Yuliya Voytenko Palgan together with the support from the Urban Sharing team at the IIIEE, Lund University, has developed a blog; The World of Urban Sharing . In this blog, the researchers have summarised academic publications as well as outp

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/world-urban-sharing-blog-urban-sharing-team - 2025-11-19

In autumn 2020, a new digital course will be launched for teachers at Lund University. It is about how to link your teaching to Agenda 2030 and the global goals - regardless of subject. In autumn 2020, a new digital course will be launched for teachers at Lund University. It is about how to link your teaching to Agenda 2030 and the global goals - regardless of subject.- We all focus on our own sub

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-collaborates-lucsus-create-agenda-2030-online-course-teachers-lund-university - 2025-11-19

In this month’s episode, we discuss the missions-oriented approach for innovation and governance, and provide highlights from the City Futures Summit. In this month’s episode, we discuss the missions-oriented approach for innovation and governance, and provide highlights from the City Futures Summit on the same topic, hosted in October 2020 by the IIIEE. We talk about missions and the challenges t

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-third-season-our-podcast-advancing-sustainable-solutions - 2025-11-19

In October 2020, Associate Professor Kes McCormick at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) passed a milestone of 200,000 downloads of his publications in Lund University Publications – which is the institutional repository for scholarly publications from Lund University. In October 2020, Associate Professor Kes McCormick at the International Institute for Indu

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/associate-professor-kes-mccormick-achieves-200000-downloads - 2025-11-19