Published 14 December 2020 MISTRA Electric Transition is a 4-year research project by a Consortium of universities, research institutes and industries that develops a strategy for achieving Sweden’s climate neutrality by 2050. On behalf of the IIIEE, Professor Aleh Cherp will co-lead a sub-project that focuses on evaluating socio-economic and political feasibility of proposed technical solutions s

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/electric-transition-research-project-receives-funding-mistra - 2025-05-09

Published 14 December 2020 We use energy in almost every aspect of our lives. Yet, often, we do not know the source of electricity that powers our homes or heats our food. In this episode, we explore energy communities as a form of decentralised and democratic energy production. Community energy sees people coming together to take control of their energy needs, by finding alternative ways to organ

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-episode-our-podcast-out-now-energy-communities-transition-towards-more-just-energy-system-0 - 2025-05-09

Published 16 December 2020 At the end of November, an report was released by the UK’s environmental audit committee related to the topic of circular economy in electronic waste. IIIEE research from the CREACE project was cited several times in the report, which highlighted premature obsolescence and many legal barriers to reuse and repair of electronics. The report included many recommendations to

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/report-circular-economy-electronic-waste - 2025-05-09

Published 17 December 2020 Lisa graduated from the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy this summer. Now she's a PhD student at the IIIEE, doing research on circular business model innovation and its implementation in the Swedish manufacturing industry. Hej Lisa! Tell us something about yourself and what you’re working with! I graduated from the EMP programme this summer. Orig

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-our-new-phd-student-lisa-heldt - 2025-05-09

Published 14 September 2015 Greening the Economy - Lessons from Scandinavia (GtE) On 14 September, the IIIEE is launching the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): Greening the Economy - Lessons from Scandinavia on the course platform Coursera.How can we live a good life on one planet with over seven billion people? This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) will explore greening the economy on four leve

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-mooc-launch-14-september - 2025-05-09

Published 15 September 2015 Johanna Lissinger Peitz Johanna Lissinger Peitz is working as Chief negotiator for the Swedish delegation to the climate negotiations in Paris 2015. Home country: Sweden Current work position: Deputy Director, Division for Climate, Ministry of the Environment and Energy Graduation year from the IIIEE: 2000 Describe your job and the most exciting aspects of it:I am curre

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/deputy-director-division-climate-ministry-environment-and-energy-career-iiiee-alumna - 2025-05-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 17 February 2021 Professor Jenny Palm and PhD student Frans Libertson state that the debate about Sweden's energy systems means a risk to overlook better and cheaper solutions to handle the lack of electricity. Sweden’s electricity production and consumption have become a hot topic this cold winter of 2021. Increasing

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/decentralized-energy-systems-give-advantages - 2025-05-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 19 February 2021 The report Circular Economy Outlook 2021, published by Cradlenet, aims to provide insights on the state of the circular economy in Sweden today, and what we should expect going forward. While examining some of the main issues of the circular economy, this report focuses on the industry and business sec

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-insights-circular-economy-cradlenet - 2025-05-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 19 February 2021 Lena Neij, professor vid IIIEE, är en av fyra forskare som blivit tillfrågade om president Bidens klimatagenda. Läs mer i artikeln i Miljö & Utveckling (extern länk, nytt fönster)  

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/fyra-klimatforskare-om-president-biden-och-klimatet - 2025-05-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 19 February 2021 The Swedish Delegation for Circular Economy has published an interview with IIIEE researcher Carl Dalhammar on its homepage. In the interview, Carl discusses the importance of product regulation as a key strategy to reach a Circular economy. Read the interview with Carl (in Swedish, new window)  

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/product-regulation-and-circular-economy - 2025-05-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 19 February 2021 Governance of nature-based solutions in the city at the intersection of justice and equity. A NATURVATION inspired special issue been has published in “Cities”. On the one hand the volume provides a diagnosis of the justice implications embedded in recent efforts to renature cities.  Placed in the brea

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/special-issue-nature-based-solutions-journal-cities - 2025-05-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 24 February 2021 This is in focus in a recently published open access article, “The role of local governments in overcoming barriers to industrial symbiosis” in Cleaner Environmental Systems, by Karolina Södergren and Jenny Palm. There is a growing interest in knowledge sharing and partnering, as is evident from the es

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-can-local-governments-support-industrial-symbiosis-emerge - 2025-05-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 24 February 2021 Frans Libertson, doctoral student at the IIIEE, has published a new article in Energy, Sustainability and Society. The focus of the article is to decipher the ongoing media discourse in Sweden concerning the electricity shortage and its proposed solutions, and thereby also discerning the related pathwa

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-competing-socio-technical-narratives-swedens-energy-future - 2025-05-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 25 February 2021 New article published by Postdoc Katharina Reindl and Professor Jenny Palm. There is huge potential to increase installation of photovoltaics (PV) using the roofs of non-residential buildings. While barriers to and enablers of the adoption of PV in residential buildings are well studied, this is not th

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/installing-photovoltaics-pv-barriers-and-enablers-experienced-non-residential-property-owners - 2025-05-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 3 March 2021 Photo: BBC Listen to our colleague Jessika Luth Richter in this program about how to make your stuff last longer. What if we got better at fixing things that broke, instead of getting new ones? How can we get more people to repair things? “We need sustainable consumption in order to address the environment

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/people-fixing-world-radio-documentary-produced-bbc - 2025-05-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 5 March 2021 New episode of our podcast Advancing Sustainable Solutions Sustainable finance, non-financial disclosures, ESG, oh my! The world of sustainable finance may seem dark and scary. But, in this episode, we introduce many key concepts through dialogue as well as discuss how sustainable finance contributes to wi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sustainable-finance-investing-our-future - 2025-05-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 8 March 2021 Offering consumers the option to rent rather than buy furniture and home accessories holds promise for reducing the large volumes of waste associated with home furnishings consumption. However, home furnishings companies face many barriers to implementing rental business models. A new article by IIIEE rese

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-article-understanding-and-overcoming-barriers-home-furnishings-rental - 2025-05-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 9 March 2021 Sharing Cities Sweden has produced two new reports – the first on cities, consumption and the sustainable developments goals and the second on the future of sharing in cities and communities. Cities and Consumption: Sharing Cities and Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Download the report Read the

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/two-new-reports-future-sharing-cities-and-consumption - 2025-05-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 18 March 2021 Together with Sparbanken Skåne, LU Innovation awards an annual prize to ideas that are good enough to become the innovations of the future. This year, Elaine M'Nkubitu, student at the EMP programme at the IIIEE, is one of the winners. Her idea is to turn organic waste into affordable and sustainable ferti

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/student-elaine-mnkubitu-one-winners-future-innovation-prize - 2025-05-09

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 21 March 2021 This city report is the result of a Mobile Research Lab conducted online in Shanghai during spring 2020. The Mobile Research Lab involves a combination of methods, including case studies, interviews, observations, expert panels, and in-situ field work. The report presents insights gained by the Urban Shar

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urban-sharing-shanghai-new-report-published - 2025-05-09