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Nature-based solutions (NBS) can help tackle climate change and advance urban sustainability by using nature to deliver social, ecological and economic benefits. However, their success largely depend on implementation for which several barriers exist. For NBS to be meaningful in terms of delivering positive impacts in cities, we need better understanding of how implementation is addressed and embe

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-article-towards-operational-understanding-implementing-nature-based-solutions - 2025-11-19

We are happy to be back with a new season of the IIIEE podcast "Advancing Sustainable Solutions"! Anxiety is a natural emotional response to stress, fear, or danger. Then, it is no wonder why some are experiencing anxiety in the face of the climate crisis. Although not a clinical diagnosis, climate anxiety – and related terms like eco-anxiety, ecological grief, and solastalgia – describes the dist

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-coping-climate-anxiety - 2025-11-19

Leonidas Milios, Jessika Luth Richter and Carl Dalhammar are authors of a new report, “Increasing the lifespan of products: policies and consumer perspectives”. The report looks at emerging European standards and policies to support longer lifetimes through design for durability and increasing repair activities. The report also reviews the literature outlining environmental benefits and trade-offs

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-author-new-report-policies-increasing-lifespan-products - 2025-11-19

The ranking contains 250 courses from 100 universities based on 170,000+ learner reviews. “The best way to choose a free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is to choose one that other people have taken and enjoyed” - Class Central. Read more about the ranking (link to Class Central's website)  Interested in taking the course? It free and you find it here .   

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/our-sustainable-cities-mooc-now-ranked-best-online-courses-all-time-class-central - 2025-11-19

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https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/september-issue-iiiee-newsletter-out-now - 2025-11-19

In this new article published in Energy Research & Social Science, the authors offer a definition of the concept of new clean energy communities, discuss their potential for wider dissemination and identify four factors that contribute to the current mismatch between ambitions and reality in energy community development. Building on these factors, the authors present a broader framework inspired b

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-clean-energy-communities-polycentric-settings-four-avenues-future-research - 2025-11-19

Join the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), with the aim to find pathways towards accelerating the transitions to climate-neutral and resource-efficient economies. We are looking for a highly qualified candidate to lead, develop and coordinate this interdisciplinary research and education institution with great ambitions. Read more about the position. Applicati

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/we-are-now-recruiting-director-iiiee - 2025-11-19

Article published on the Lund University website: 29/09/2015:Three years ago Steven Curtis won the first prize in Lund University’s ” Challenge Your Perspectives” scholarship competition for American students. Sweden’s ambassador to the USA, Jonas Hafström, handed him the diploma in Washington DC. On 25 September 2015 Steven once again received a diploma from the hands of Jonas Hafström – this tim

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/scholarship-winner-steven-curtis-graduates-iiiee-and-closes-circle - 2025-11-19

The production of renewable energy is increasing every year. But after analysing the growth rates of wind and solar power in 60 countries, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and Lund University in Sweden and Central European University in Vienna, Austria, conclude that virtually no country is moving sufficiently fast to avoid global warming of 1.5°C or even 2°C. Aleh Cherp, Professor

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/press-release-expansion-wind-and-solar-power-too-slow-stop-climate-change - 2025-11-19

Den sista augusti 2021 avslutades det nationella programmet Sharing Cities Sweden. Programmet har utgjort en viktig del av Viable Cities - det strategiska innovationsprogrammet för smarta och hållbara städer. Mycket fokus har legat på städers möjligheter att främja delning av saker, tjänster, platser och mobilitet. Vi ser att städer kan göra stora insatser för att främja en hållbar konsumtion, där

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/svenska-stader-leder-delningsekonomins-framfart-en-aktiv-delningskultur-driver-pa - 2025-11-19

In this new article published in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, we collaborate with a team of researchers from around the world to critically review the contributions, advances and challenges related to research on energy efficiency. Labelled as the ‘first fuel’ for economic development, energy efficiency has become more prominent than ever in policy and scientific communities wor

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/what-have-we-learnt-after-four-decades-research-energy-efficiency - 2025-11-19

Reaching the 1.5°C climate target requires a drastic decline in the use of fossil fuels, especially coal in Asia and OECD. Has such decline ever happed in the past? At the first glance, the answer is ‘no’. Globally, new energy and technologies have always been added on top of the old ones (so that past ‘energy transitions’ are sometimes humorously called ‘energy additions’!) But a new research co-

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/historical-lessons-getting-rid-fossil-fuels - 2025-11-19

Alltför ofta glöms kommunerna centrala roll bort i klimatdebatten. Det är på den lokala nivån många viktiga beslut fattas med direkt påverkan på medborgare, civilsamhälle och näringslivets klimatarbete. Lunds kommun har inom ramen för Miljömålsprogrammet LundaEko satt upp ambitiösa klimatmål. Parallellt har kommunen skrivit under ett klimatkontrakt där den åtar sig att bli klimatneutral till 2030.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/debattartikel-om-lunds-klimatarbete-i-skanska-dagbladet - 2025-11-19

The IIIEE is offering a new PhD position starting on 1 January 2016.Final application date is 18 October 2015.Contact person for this position is Professor Lena Neij, Director at the IIIEE:Telephone: +46 46 222 02 22Email: lena [dot] neij [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (lena[dot]neij[at]iiiee[dot]lu[dot]se )Read more about this position here

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

The Energy Blog was recently launched and is a space to discuss energy, its role in our societies and how it can be transformed. The aim is to contribute with innovative ways to accomplish a transformation to a low-carbon society and a more sustainable and affordable energy system. Behind the blog you find a team of PhD students, researchers and professors. They present findings from their work wi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/follow-iiiee-energy-blog - 2025-11-19

In a newly published article in Global Environmental Change, we collaborate with colleagues from LUCSUS and Karolinska Institute to critically review the scientific knowledge linking internal (‘individual’) and external (‘system’) transformations. A roadmap for advancing research, policy and practice is proposed. Much of the debate on and policy approaches for sustainability and climate change hav

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/what-do-we-know-about-links-between-internal-and-external-transformation-sustainability-and-climate - 2025-11-19

Throughout autumn 2021, from late September to mid-December, Lund University will host 'Subject Area Weeks'. During one week at a time, we will put the spotlight on one of our ten subject areas so that you can learn more about studies in that field and also interact with programme staff and current students from that subject area during webinars. If you are interested in Environment and Sustainabi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/subject-area-week-environment-and-sustainability - 2025-11-19

IIIEE researchers Carl Dalhammar, Jessika Luth Richter and Mariana Lopez Davila were invited to present their research at the “Fixing for Future” symposium on repair in Oslo November 18-19. The symposium explored the complexities surrounding product repair in a Nordic context. Speakers and participants from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, from academia, industry, and other fields of practice

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-presented-fixing-future-oslo - 2025-11-19

Degrowth is a critique of infinite economic growth, recognising continued consumption of scarce resources will inevitably result in exhausting them completely. In this episode, we present the challenges of living within an economic system governed by infinite growth on a planet with finite resources. We discuss key vocabulary to understand degrowth, and its three goals: 1) Reduce environmental imp

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-degrowth-challenging-infinite-growth-finite-world - 2025-11-19

When scooters replace travels with car or taxi they contribute to a reduced climate impact. But if they replace walking and biking they will have a bigger impact. Thus the climate impact of scooters depends on how they are being used. New debate article in Sydsvenskan by PhD students Ana Maria Arbalaez Velez and Frans Libertson. Read the article (in Swedish): https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2021-12-04/

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/electric-scooters-not-sustainable-default - 2025-11-19