Participants at the POLLEN2024 conference. The POLLEN2024 conference in June gathered hundreds of researchers across three sites Dodoma (Tanzania), Lima (Peru) and Lund (Sweden) in 200 special panels to discuss political ecology for just and plural futures. Some of the organisers at Lund University and University of Copenhagen: Jens Friis Lund, Wim Carton, Mine Islar, Lina Lefstad and Torsten Krau

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflections-pollen2024-what-makes-29-researchers-three-continents-join-forces-create-conference - 2025-08-21

Natalia Rubiiano's thesis presents a number of findings connected to justice. One relates to ideas of land availability and the definition of marginal land, that might be used for afforestation or BECCS. A new thesis explores how justice, which is a core principle of the global climate agreements, is considered in the global mitigation pathways assessed by the IPCC for staying within climate polic

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/ipcc-pathways-run-risk-reproducing-historical-injustices-according-new-thesis - 2025-08-21

PhD student Stefan Schüller is researching the prospects of a perennial revolution in agriculture as part of the PERENNIAL project. He is motivated by how perennial systems can address many of the problems connected to agriculture, and hopes to challenge incumbent power structures and spur radical transformations in food and farming in his research. What attracted you to LUCSUS and this PhD?Workin

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-stefan-schuller-explores-prospects-perennial-revolution-agriculture - 2025-08-21

Pictured from top, left to right: Melissa García-Lamarca, Emily Boyd, Bregje van Veelen, Lennart Olsson and Christine Wamsler. LUCSUS is incredibly proud to announce that several of the centre's researchers are recognised in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist ranking 2024! Professor Christine Wamsler was rated the number 1 scientist in Sweden for her contribution to environmental science, ecol

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-included-stanfordelsevier-top-2-scientist-2024-ranking - 2025-08-21

Vaupes in the Colombian Amazon – a view of forest coverage in an Indigenous managed territory. The photo was taken 2015 by Carlos Alberto Hernandez Veléz. COP16 in Cali, Colombia, is the first Conference of the Parties since the adoption of the landmark Biodiversity Plan in 2022 in which countries pledged to save 30 percent of Earth’s land and sea for nature by 2030. PhD student Valentina Lomanto

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-are-ideal-outcomes-cop16 - 2025-08-21

COP29 participants pictured during day one, 11th November, of the climate conference. UN Climate Change - Habib Samadov COP29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, has just started in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running from 11th to 22nd November, a key priority for this year's climate conference is to secure a new goal on climate finance, ensuring every country has the means to take much stronger

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/professor-emily-boyds-expectations-cop29 - 2025-08-21

COP29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, has just started in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running from 11th to 22nd November, a key priority for this year's climate conference is to secure a new goal on climate finance, ensuring every country has the means to take much stronger climate action, slashing greenhouse gas emissions and building resilient communities. LUCSUS researchers and LUMES alumn

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-cop29-baku-azerbaijan - 2025-08-21

Out of 283 districts in Europe, only two collective regions perform well in both social and environmental sustainability. This is concerning as it suggests that the EU farm subsidy scheme, the Common Agricultural Policy, is failing to deliver on its aim to protect rural livelihoods, landscapes and the environment. – Currently, public money in the EU is paying for bad performance. Instead of using

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/mapping-hotspots-sustainable-and-unsustainable-agriculture-europe - 2025-08-21

Over 40% of the land pledged in the countries' climate plans is envisaged to be converted into forests from other land uses according to the researchers' study. Photo: Pixabay. A billion hectares – or an area a bit larger than the US – that is how much land that would be required globally to meet countries’ net-zero climate targets. For the first time researchers can show the rate and extent of pr

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/countries-unrealistic-land-demands-reach-net-zero-area-bit-larger-us - 2025-08-21

The University House pictured by Kennet Ruona. LUCSUS Director Barry Ness and Professor Lennart Olsson are proud that Lund University is ranked third in the world in Sustainability in the QS World University Rankings. It is a ranking well deserved they say. – Over the past 25 years, researchers at Lund University have been pioneers in the interdisciplinary field of sustainability studies. In 2008,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranked-third-world-qs-sustainability-ranking-well-deserved - 2025-08-21

The study shines a light on the need for adaptation laws and policies that empower vulnerable communities, rather than displacing them, say the researchers. Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson. How should societies adapt to rising seas, floods, and other climate threats? These questions are explored in a new study by LUCSUS researchers. It reveals that the answer is broader than just improved policies

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/rethinking-laws-climate-adaptation-exploring-resistance-flooded-cartagena - 2025-08-21

The flight-free movement seems to have paved the way for cultural change in high-carbon norms and practices which is absolutely necessary in the climate transition says Sara Ullström. Illustration: Markus Wendén. Have the flight-free movement’s calls to avoid flying because of climate change had an impact on travel behaviors? What can be attributed to economic factors, changed social norms or a co

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-dissertation-explores-how-swedens-flight-free-movement-challenges-social-norms-around-flying - 2025-08-21

The United Nations declared 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation, accompanied by the proclamation of the 21st March of each year as the World Day for Glaciers starting in 2025. Around the world, glaciers are retreating at unprecedented rates due to climate change. On January 21, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/2025-international-year-glaciers-preservation-research-lucsus-studies-impacts-glacial-melt - 2025-08-21

To find sustainable solutions for employees in industries facing decline, I think you need to understand what it is about the job that is important to their identity, Says Felix Schultz. A new research project, led by LUCSUS research fellow Felix Schulz, aims to explore how work identities shape attitudes toward climate action and policies, highlighting both challenges and opportunities in the tra

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/understanding-identity-climate-transition - 2025-08-21

The conference was opened and closed by Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo, a representative of the Resguardo Indígena, Condagua, Putumayo, Colombia. Inspiring, diverse, and multidisciplinary! DevRes2024, hosted by Lund University, brought together 200 researchers and practitioners from 16 different countries, for a two-day conference in October. DevRes 2024 was hosted by Lund University on 21 - 23 Octob

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/devres2024-inspiring-diverse-and-multidisciplinary - 2025-08-21

Between Februray 28 and April 4, Malmö Academy of Music is co-hosting an international panel series about 'Freedom in Music Education'. Organised by piano student Iveri Kekenadze. What is the context of the panel series? -It is a collaborative project between myself, the international office at Tbilisi State Conservatoire (Georgia) and Malmö Academy of Music. The aim is to open up and widen the ho

https://www.mhm.lu.se/artikel/interpreting-freedom-music-education - 2025-08-21

Lördagen den 9 april är det dags för årets UTSPEL på Musikhögskolan, en heldagsfestival med 14 kammarmusikensembler. Vi har ställt några frågor till producent Johan Antoni. Hej Johan, vem vänder sig UTSPEL till? -UTSPEL är en kammarmusikfestival för musikälskare där programmets breda palett rymmer något för alla. Du behöver alltså inte vara en inbiten kammarmusikentusiast för att njuta av den. Som

https://www.mhm.lu.se/artikel/dags-utspel-kammarmusikfestivalen-2022 - 2025-08-21

Mathilda Bryngelsson har tilldelats Anders Walls Giresta-stipendium på 125,000 kronor. Mathilda är en mezzosopran och går andra året på Malmö Opera Academy, ett nära samarbete mellan Musikhögskolan och Malmö Opera.  Hej Mathilda, vad betyder det att få det här stipendiet?  – Att få årets Giresta-stipendium är oerhört stort för mig. Rent ekonomiskt innebär det att jag inte behöver stressa sönder fö

https://www.mhm.lu.se/artikel/grattis-mathilda - 2025-08-21

Foto: Louise Martinsson Johann Sebastian Bach är inte ensam om att skriva passioner, tvärtom har han fått konkurrens på senare år. Musikhögskolan i Malmös egen professor i komposition, Rolf Martinsson, är mannen bakom Lukaspassionen – en samtida passion i traditionell form med sångtexter av Göran Greider. Nu framför skolans studenter den. Musikhögskolan i Malmös kyrkomusikstudenter kommer att ge t

https://www.mhm.lu.se/artikel/passionerat-pa-musikhogskolan-i-malmo - 2025-08-21

Musikhögskolan i Malmö har fått en ny violinprofessor. Nästa läsår välkomnar skolan Erik Heide, konsertmästare i Göteborgs Symfoniker och The Danish Chamber Orchestra. – Jag ser fram emot att börja på Musikhögskolan i Malmö. Jag har ju bott i Danmark och verkat i Öresundsregionen väldigt länge så geografiskt är det en plats jag är van att vara på. Båda mina föräldrar är ursprungligen från Malmö oc

https://www.mhm.lu.se/artikel/erik-heide-borjar-som-violinprofessor-vid-musikhogskolan-i-malmo - 2025-08-21