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Both our Greening the Economy MOOCs start new 5-week sessions on Monday 25 April - join 1000s that are learning about lessons from Scandinavia and sustainable cities!Lessons from ScandinaviaHow can we live a good life on one planet with over seven billion people? This course explores greening the economy on four levels – individual, business, city, and nation. It looks at the relationships between

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/greening-economy-moocs-start-new-5-week-sessions-monday-25-april - 2025-12-18

The idea of carbon or climate neutrality holds diverse interpretations. A new article from IIIEE examines dominant narratives and suggests opportunities for relevant policy pathways. Climate neutrality of cities has emerged as a critical goal for sustainable urban development. This is typified by the mission in the European Union (EU) to achieve 100 climate neutral and smart cities by 2030. IIIEE

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/optimism-and-pragmatism-mission-cities - 2025-12-18

Luis Mundaca gave a keynote speech on the ‘Climate Paris Agreement’ at the University of Seville, Spain.On 16 March, at the IX Int’l Seminar on Economics and the Environment, Associate Professor Luis Mundaca at the IIIEE talked about the outcomes and challenges associated with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. His presentation, titled ‘The Climate Paris Agreement: not a destination but a chal

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/luis-mundaca-gave-keynote-speech-climate-paris-agreement-university-seville - 2025-12-18

Urban sharing of assets, spaces and skills has emerged as a promising future solution to sustainability challenges faced by cities. It is also the subject of a new project by Oksana Mont, professor in sustainable consumption and production at IIIEE, who recently received the Swedish Foundations’ Starting Grant – a new grant intended for the most talented young researchers in Europe.The project is

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urban-sharing-promising-future-solution-sustainability-challenges-cities - 2025-12-18

New business model for electric trucks at Volvo, renewable electricity for refugee camps in Jordan or mobile apps for coffee farmers in Tanzania to adapt to climate change? Today on 29 April, the final year master students at the IIIEE present their findings from client projects across the globe. Many interesting topics presented in our Aula today!

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/master-students-present-their-client-projects-across-globe - 2025-12-18

On 26 April Mikael Backman participated in a TV-broadcast presenting the planned combined heat and power (CHP) and Biogas plants in Zabrze. The latter is entirely a project based on research and development performed by EMP students (Environmental Management and Policy programme) and staff, in the framework of the Swedish-Polish Sustainable Energy Platform at the IIIEE.Watch the film clip here

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/renewable-energy-projects-poland - 2025-12-18

A new project integrating cities and universities to advance sustainable building and planning Swedish municipalities play a key role in sustainable building and planning. However, research has proven to be difficult to transfer from universities to practice. From 2016, three universities located in Skåne, SLU Alnarp (project leader), Lund University (IIIEE and LTH) and Malmö University, have a jo

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/when-municipalities-set-research-agenda - 2025-12-18

Associate Professor and IPCC Lead Author Luis Mundaca participated in high-level meetings during Climate Action Week 2016 in the United States, May 2-6. He first participated in the Universitas 21 Workshop ‘Informing Climate Action 2016’ at University of Maryland. This meeting brought together top scientists from Universitas 21 network working on different aspects of climate change mitigation and

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/associate-professor-luis-mundaca-high-level-meetings-during-climate-action-week-2016 - 2025-12-18

On 12 May, the IIIEE was represented by Håkan Rodhe, at the Branding Africa Conference. He met with several African ambassadors and discussed the African need for education, MOOCs, and Ethiopia's fast growth and ambition to be climate neutral by 2030.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/branding-africa-conference - 2025-12-18

In the article "Uber lägger ner Pop i Sverige" published by NyTeknik, Oksana Mont, Professor in Sustainable Consumption and Production at the IIIEE, is commenting on the problems that may arise when the sharing economy is unregulated.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/oksana-mont-nyteknik - 2025-12-18

Prof. Oksana Mont at the IIIEE is co-editor of a new edited book on welfare and its relationship to sustainability. Welfare is commonly conceptualized in socio-economic terms of equity, highlighting distributive issues within growing economies. While GDP, income growth and rising material standards of living are normally not questioned as priorities in welfare theories and policy making, there is

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-book-sustainability-and-political-economy-welfare - 2025-12-18

Seven shades of green: Exploring options for sustainable transitions A new Strategic Environmental Development (SED) report has been published by Master's students of the Environmental Management and Policy (EMP) programme at the IIIEE.Follow the link to access the full report: Seven shades of green: Exploring options for sustainable transitions

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-sed-report-masters-students - 2025-12-18

Swedish wood: Innovative products for a circular economy Can Swedish wood be the answer to our future needs, from T-shirts to 10-storey apartment buildings? The challenge is not the technology, but how society can support the development of this market. It has the potential for creating both a sustainable and circular economy. Saying that Sweden and Finland are territories covered by forests, is n

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-ake-thidell - 2025-12-18

University of Virginia visits IIIEE with a Study Abroad programme for the third time. Sixteen University of Virginia students came to Lund to engage in a three week sustainability consulting projects. IIIEE is hosting the group for the third time while the students under the supervision of their mentors are working on their projects with the company Godsinlösen, two departments at the City of Lund

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/university-virginia-visit - 2025-12-18

On 26 May, the Romanian Ambassador to Sweden, H.E. Mr Iulian Buga and his delegation, are visiting the IIIEE to learn more about the activities of the IIIEE and to discuss the conditions and potentials of an expansion of the IIIEE outreach programme Swedish-Polish Sustainable Energy Platform, towards Romania.At the IIIEE, the delegation was welcomed by Lena Neij, Director of the IIIEE, Mikael Back

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/romanian-ambassador-sweden-visits-iiiee - 2025-12-18

Assoc. Prof. Kes McCormick is a co-author on two chapters in a new book on urban experimentation. This new book explores how the concept or urban experimentation is being used to reshape practices of knowledge production in urban debates about resilience, climate change governance, and socio-technical transitions. With contributions from leading scholars, and case studies from the Global North and

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/experimental-city-new-book - 2025-12-18

While climate policies would have a beneficial effect for energy security in most countries, energy independence policies would not bring significant climate benefits.Ambitious policies to reduce energy imports would have little impact on climate change, and could be achieved much more cheaply than the climate mitigation measures needed to limit climate change to no more than 2°C above pre-industr

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/reducing-energy-imports-not-sufficient-tackle-climate-change-according-new-study-published-nature - 2025-12-18

On 14 June, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra) is visiting the IIIEE. Mistra's executive Director Åke Iverfeldt is introducing Mistra and Lena Neij, Director of the IIIEE is presenting the IIIEE and ongoing activities.During the morning, IIIEE researchers are presenting various research projects that they are currently involved in.Projects:REES - Resource Efficien

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mistra-visiting-iiiee - 2025-12-18

The winners of the Universitas 21 Global Ingenuity Challenge 2016 have been elected. Lund university was represented by Team Global Lund and won the category "Peer's Choice Award" together with Korea University, and received a special award for their contribution "Host-a-Home". The theme of this year's challenge was "Sustainable Housing" and the contribution Host-a-Home suggests a cost-effective,

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/winners-universitas-21-global-ingenuity-challenge-2016 - 2025-12-18

The June issue of the IIIEE Newsletter is out now. Follow the link Vol.1. No. 3, June, 2016IIIEE newsletter archive

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/june-issue-iiiee-newsletter-out-now - 2025-12-18