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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 - 2025-11-24

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 - 2025-11-24

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 - 2025-11-24

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 - 2025-11-24

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 - 2025-11-24

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 - 2025-11-24

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 - 2025-11-24

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 - 2025-11-24

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 - 2025-11-24

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 - 2025-11-24

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 - 2025-11-24

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 - 2025-11-24

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 - 2025-11-24

On the Danube in Budapest. On 23 June master's students of the MESPOM programme graduated in Budapest. Celebrations took place on the Danube, the traditional way to close the MESPOM programme. Graduates, families and staff enjoyed the sunset while looking back at two intense and highly rewarding years, and looking ahead to the new adventures to come. Congratulations MESPOM batch 10. Senior lecture

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mespom-graduation-2016 - 2025-11-24

On 3-10 July the Almedalen Week in Gotland takes place. The IIIEE takes part in two activities on 6 July:1. "Från förvaltare till klimathjälte" - a seminar arranged by Dagens Industri and Caverion. Prof. Lena Neij, Director of the IIIEE is participating in this seminar.2. "Still a future: Syria moving forward despite uncertainty" - a seminar arranged by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lun

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-participates-almedalen-week-2016 - 2025-11-24

Urban Arena is a network for sustainable urban development research at Lund University and is gathering almost 200 researchers. On June 15th, an Urban Arena wake-up seminar focusing on the theme “Smart Sustainable Cities” was held.Last year the Strategic Innovation Agenda “Smart Sustainable Cities” was accepted, with Lund University and Urban Arena as one of the co-partners for the agenda. The nex

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/first-wake-seminar-about-smart-sustainable-cities - 2025-11-24

Aiming for blue Beijing skies An increasingly ambitious environmental legislation has not reduced economic growth in the EU – indicating it will not do so in China either. This is good news for Chinese environmentalists, who have asked IIIEE researchers for evidence that supports their work for a greener China under bluer skies.Over the past few decades China has experienced a remarkable period of

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-philip-peck - 2025-11-24

Today on 15 August 2016, batch 22 of the Master’s programme in Environmental Management and Policy (the EMP programme), begin their on-site part of the programme. They are about 27 students from various parts of the world including Canada, USA, Turkey, Romania, Denmark, Ireland, Colombia, the Russian Federation, Sweden, Italy, the UK, Ukraine, Spain, Hungary, Chile, Germany, Indonesia, Lithuania a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-batch-22-emp-programme - 2025-11-24

A new article on the Biomethane use in Sweden has been published in the magazine The Archives of Autmotive Engineering co-authored by Mikael Backman at the IIIEE.Direct link to the article here 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-article-biomethane-use-sweden - 2025-11-24

The IIIEE is now a new research partner on policy and guidelines for a sustainable fashion industry through the Mistra Future Fashion programme."For many years, we have been looking into various product-oriented environmental law and policies, and their influence on business practices. Textile is definitely among the "hottest" product groups for which varieties of interventions by various levels o

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-joins-partner-mistra-future-fashion-programme-policies-and-guidelines - 2025-11-24