Published 3 April 2024 The IIIEE is a partner in the newly started ERASMUS+ project CLARITY that aims to help reduce climate anxiety in youth by equipping educators with tools to address the emotional and mental stress related to climate anxiety. Climate change education in schools and universities tends to focus on environmental facts, whilst little room is given to inner dimensions of change and

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-research-project-adress-climate-anxiety-among-youth - 2025-05-15

Published 8 April 2024 Today it is exactly one year until SCORAI Europe Conference 2025 in Lund! April 8-10 next year, 400+ researchers and practitioners in sustainable consumption will gather in Lund to discuss how to mainstream sustainable consumption. The conference is hybrid, so even full conference participation online is possible.Make sure to keep up to date by signing up to the conference n

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Published 8 April 2024 This week 8-13 is the Sustainability Week 2024, an annual event in Lund organized in by Lund University and Lund Municipality. In this year's program you will find lectures, workshops, guided tours, exhibitions, and more. The IIIEE is contributing with expert input in several seminars and activities.Below in the program the circled events denote those that are run with input

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Published 9 April 2024 Photo by Riccardo Annandale on Unsplash The latest IIIEE Energy blog introduces guest researcher's Senja Laakso’s work on Sustainable Practices and Energy Transitions. In January and February 2024, Senja Laakso from the Centre for Consumer Society Research, University of Helsinki, and Tampere University visited us at the IIIEE for six weeks. The latest Energy Blog is the fir

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/bridging-communities-guest-researcher-exploring-and-redefining-energy-citizenship - 2025-05-15

Published 15 April 2024 In an event organised by the Skåne County Administrative Board as part of the Sustainability Week in Lund, IIIEE researchers Oksana Mont and Andrius Plepys presented results from the ongoing EU project 1.5°C lifestyles. About 200 decision-makers participated in the event. On Friday, 12 April nearly 200 decision-makers participated in the event organised as part of the Lund

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/almost-200-policy-makers-heard-results-and-recommendations-eu-15deg-lifestyles - 2025-05-15

Published 18 April 2024 Photo: Philipp Montenegro The IIIEE had the honour of receiving the ambassador of New Zealand and to share some insights from ongoing research. On 16 April the Ambassador of New Zealand visited Lund University. Ambassador David Taylor met with the Vice Chancellor Erik Renström.Mr. Taylor also came over to learn more about the IIIEE in particular. The ambassador was introduc

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/ambassador-new-zealand-visits-iiiee - 2025-05-15

Published 19 April 2024 Photo: Philipp Montenegro The Naturescapes project gathered around 30 partners and researcher to come to the IIIEE for a project Kick-off and to start the thought-processes on how new kinds of NATURESCAPES can generate transformative change for the future. This week marks the grande Kick-off for the new research project Naturescapes! The Naturescapes project team met at the

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/project-kick-discuss-how-naturescapes-can-create-long-term-solutions - 2025-05-15

Published 25 April 2024 The collaboration initiative Climate-neutral cities 2030 – Open Academy together with the municipality of Lund, hosted a seminar on financing transformative change. Held in the IIIEE Aula, the event gathered representatives from cities, academia, and society, who joined the conversation on how energy communities can become a part of a sustainability transition. During the s

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/financing-transformative-change - 2025-05-15

Published 29 April 2024 The collaboration initiative Climate-neutral cities 2030 – Open Academy together with the City of Malmö arranges a workshop on the topic of citizen engagement. The program offers inspirational talks, researcher presentations, panels, and joint conversations. Welcome to join! When: 16 maj 2024, 10:30-16:00Where: STUDIO MeetingpointNordenskiöldsgatan 24, MalmöRegister your pa

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/workshop-citizen-engagement-climate-transition - 2025-05-15

By charlotte [dot] leire [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Charlotte Leire) - published 30 April 2024 Industrial policy is seeing a revival, but it does hardly address Circular Economy. New research from IIIEE, published in Sustainable Production and Consumption, shows how the necessary circular transition in industry can be supported by new types of industrial policies. This exploratory contribution

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-research-shows-how-circular-economy-can-be-supported-new-industrial-policies - 2025-05-15

Published 7 May 2024 A group of researchers and teachers from the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” in Ukraine visited IIIEE to discuss and exchange academic insights. Yesterday, four academic colleagues from Ukraine visited the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) to share knowledge and foster research and educational collaborations. Our guests came fr

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/ukrainian-university-visited-iiiee-share-knowledge-and-foster-research-and-educational - 2025-05-15

Published 16 May 2024 Students from the 30th batch of the EMP program at the IIIEE will be part of the Lund University delegation to the Bonn Climate Conference (SB60) this Summer, translating knowledge into practice. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international treaty addressing climate change and reducing greenhouse gasses. It provides a framework countr

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lund-university-sends-iiiee-student-delegates-un-climate-conference - 2025-05-15

Published 21 May 2024 In a resent workshop, representatives from academia and from the Mission cities Lund, Helsingborg, and Malmö, have come together to explore and discuss how citizen engagement can be applied to support cities’ efforts towards becoming climate-neutral. In the light of changing demands on politics from citizens, and a democracy in crisis, citizen engagement is growing.  As a top

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/citizen-engagement-path-towards-climate-neutrality - 2025-05-15

Published 28 January 2016 IIIEE researcher Yuliya Voytenko Closed loops in the sharing city?Sharing is caring – but is it always sustainable? The sharing economy is altering the way we look at ourselves as consumers and our idea of the market, but it also raises other questions: what role should the city take in this, and how can we ensure that the result is truly sustainable?The sharing economy i

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-yuliya-voytenko - 2025-05-15

Published 22 May 2024 Photo: Lars Strupeit As a collaboration between University of Virginia and the IIIEE undertake a short course in Lund focusing on organisations, businesses and sustainability strategies. Since 2014, the IIIEE is hosting students from the University of Virginia in the USA to allow for a short course as part of the Study Abroad program. The course lasts three weeks and the stud

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/students-university-virginia-annual-visit-study-sustainability-iiiee-0 - 2025-05-15

Published 28 May 2024 Photo: Philipp Montenegro On Friday 24 May at 13:00 Frans Libertson from the IIIEE defend his thesis "The stories of user flexibility – An exploration of flexibility capital for a just energy transition". The defence was chaired IIIEE Senior Lecturer Carl Dalhammar. Faculty opponent was Dr. Michael Fell – Senior Research Fellow at University College London. His work focuses o

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/frans-libertson-has-successfully-defended-his-doctoral-degree - 2025-05-15

Published 29 May 2024 The focus for smart grids has been on the energy and climate implications—in research and practice. Another crucial dimension is whether smart grids can be developed in line with circular economy principles. A new research article from Katharina Reindl, Carl Dalhammar and Emma Brodén studies the relationship between grid and circular economy in more detail and published Circu

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/what-potential-circular-economy-smart-grid-developments-new-article - 2025-05-15

Published 30 May 2024 Photo: Johan Persson This week marked the end of the fourth round of the course “Innovation in Governance for Urban Nature-based solutions”. On Tuesday 28th of May the Final Conference took place with an event that allowed the course participants to showcase the progress, insights, and future commitments. The course is coordinated by IIIEE in collaboration with guest teachers

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/positive-testimonials-after-another-successful-run-iiiee-course-lifelong-learning - 2025-05-15

Published 10 June 2024 Jenny Palm and Anna-Riikka Kojonsaari presented their insights on energy democracy, energy justice and energy citizenship at the 16th NESS – Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference in Turku, Finland. This year's NESS – Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference focused on sustainability transformations and challenges related to knowledge (co)production. The confer

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-presented-nordic-environmental-social-science-conference - 2025-05-15

Published 11 June 2024 Photo: Philipp Montenegro Today the students from Batch 29 celebrated their completion of the Master’s programme in Environmental Management and Policy. The ceremony started with a procession with flags and graduates and teachers walking from the IIIEE building to the main university building. The key note speech was delivered by Karin Jönsson from Statkraft Sweden who prais

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/graduated-students-celebrating-iiiee - 2025-05-15