Published 8 February 2024 Lund University's Raoul Wallenberg Institute will be part of the group of institutions doing a review of UNWRA) The UN Secretary-General, in consultation with United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA) Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini, has appointed an independent Review Group to assess whether the Agency is doing everyth

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/raoul-wallenberg-institute-lund-university-assigned-review-unwra - 2025-08-03

Published 9 February 2024 CMES Researcher Svante Lundgren has written an article in The Conversation. The article, "Jerusalem: Jewish settler movement makes bid for large slice of Armenian quarter", was published in The Conversation on 8 February 2024.IntroductionThe Armenian quarter in Jerusalem’s Old City is facing its biggest crisis in a long time. A Jewish businessman with connections to the r

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/jewish-settlers-make-bid-armenian-quarter-jerusalem - 2025-08-03

Published 20 February 2024 Photo: Ulrika Oredsson CMES Visiting Fulbright Professor Dalia Dassa Kaye has been interviewed about the war in Gaza and the need for new leadership as the only way forward. The war in Gaza will end when Israel realises that its two goals are mutually exclusive - it will not be able to both destroy Hamas and free the hostages. This is what the new visiting Fulbright prof

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-visiting-fulbright-professor-dalia-dassa-kaye-war-gaza - 2025-08-03

By linda [dot] eitrem_holmgren [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Linda Eitrem Holmgren) - published 21 February 2024 The Conversation is a unique collaboration between academics and journalists that in a decade has become the world’s leading publisher of research-based news and analysis. 25% of all articles from Lund University published in the Conversation in 2023 focused on the Middle East, generatin

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/46000-reads-lund-university-articles-middle-east-conversation-2023 - 2025-08-03

Published 27 February 2024 CMES interns 2024: Lilljan Daoud, Jaara Chikfa, Boran Zhang, Marine Lambotte, Rupert von der Kammer, Irene Vanni, Fadi Azzo, Asma Ben Salam and Renee Nienhuis. Not pictured: Szebasztián Simic and Firat Berk Sivaslioğlu. Photo: Linda Eitrem Holmgren CMES is delighted to welcome 11 part-time project interns for the 2024 spring semester. The interns are all masters students

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-welcomes-new-interns - 2025-08-03

Published 28 February 2024 The workshop focused on the intersections between conflict, environment and policy to explore the politico-environmental dimensions of the war in Syria. There were also discussions on the broader relevance and application of project results beyond the context of Syria. On 20-21 February, CMES hosted the workshop “Just and Equitable Ecological Models in Contested and Conf

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-workshop-conflict-and-environment-kurdistan - 2025-08-03

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 28 February 2024 Lina Eklund is one of the researchers in the international team working to analyse satellite images of the destruction of Gaza. Photo: Johan Joelsson CMES researcher and physical geographer Lina Eklund is tracking the destruction of Gaza week by week using satellite images. Her analyses could be si

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/destruction-gaza-monitored-space - 2025-08-03

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 4 May 2022 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 m

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/can-urban-mining-save-planet - 2025-08-03

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 5 May 2022 Lena Neij, chairman of Lund Climate Policy Council hands over the 2022 report to Philip Sandberg, Mayor of the city of Lund, at a ceremony on May 4. Photo source: Creative Commons Lund was the first municipality to create a local climate policy council in 2018. The council consists of researchers from Lund U

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/climate-report-2022-presented-lund-municipality - 2025-08-03

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 9 May 2022 Steven Curtis and Sofie Sandin Lompar, co-hosts and founders of the podcast Advancing Sustainable Solutions. Photo: Li Strandberg 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 sus

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-podcast-advancing-sustainable-solutions-receives-honorary-mention - 2025-08-03

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 11 May 2022 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

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/will-digital-services-make-us-travel-less - 2025-08-03

Published 7 October 2015 "We need scientific evidence evaluating the impact of Urban Living Labs. We hope to be able to close this gap", says IIIEE Visiting Researcher James Evans, professor at Manchester University. 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

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By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 16 May 2022 Rogier van den Berg, Ross Center for Sustainable Cities and Kes McCormick, IIIEE. 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 learni

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-iclei-world-congress-filming-and-podcasting-capacity-building-and-lifelong-learning - 2025-08-03

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 18 May 2022 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 - 2025-08-03

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 19 May 2022 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 ec

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/policy-brief-energy-communities-sweden - 2025-08-03

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 30 May 2022 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 Bus

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-sustainable-business-model-design-patterns-make-sustainability-work - 2025-08-03

Published 8 October 2015 Photo: IIIEE researcher Kes McCormick 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 L

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-kes-mccormick - 2025-08-03

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 31 May 2022 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 research

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/carl-dalhammar-contributes-background-reports-stockholm50-conference - 2025-08-03

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 3 June 2022 Bumble bee on roof in Malmö. Photo: Björn Wickenberg 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)

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/implementation-nature-based-solutions-cities-requires-collaboration-learning-and-co-production - 2025-08-03

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 9 June 2022 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 relea

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lund-awarded-first-place-wwf-one-planet-city-challenge - 2025-08-03