Published 27 October 2020 In this month’s episode, we discuss the missions-oriented approach for innovation and governance, and provide highlights from the City Futures Summit. In this month’s episode, we discuss the missions-oriented approach for innovation and governance, and provide highlights from the City Futures Summit on the same topic, hosted in October 2020 by the IIIEE. We talk about mis

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-third-season-our-podcast-advancing-sustainable-solutions - 2025-07-09

Published 2 November 2020 In October 2020, Associate Professor Kes McCormick at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) passed a milestone of 200,000 downloads of his publications in Lund University Publications – which is the institutional repository for scholarly publications from Lund University. In October 2020, Associate Professor Kes McCormick at the Intern

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Published 6 November 2020 Naoko Tojo, Associate Professor at the IIIEE, comments in Swedish TV why textile recycling is important With a sorting capacity of 24,000 tonnes of textiles per year, the new plant at Sysav in Malmö will revolutionize Swedish textile recycling and create new markets for textile waste. An average Swede throws 8 kilos of textile in the waste bin every year, almost 200 tons

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/worlds-first-large-scale-plant-automatic-textile-sorting-put-operation-malmo - 2025-07-09

Published 6 November 2020 Governing the sharing economy: Towards a comprehensive analytical framework of municipal governance Sharing and the City researcher Associate Professor Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Principal investigator of Urban Sharing project Professor Oksana Mont, together with the IIIEE aluma Simo Sulkakoski, have recently published an article in the international peer reviewed journal

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-article-yuliya-voytenko-palgan-and-oksana-mont - 2025-07-09

Published 24 November 2020 Batch 26, the final-year students in the IIIEE Master in Environmental Management and Policy, have showed that they are capable of delivering value in a professional setting. Our capstone consulting course challenged the teams, this year with seven clients: Ikea, Axis, Oatly, Volvo Penta, Diab, Elkretsen and the Swedish Ministry of Environment. The projects covered a bro

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/driving-sustainability-change-times-restriction - 2025-07-09

Published 1 December 2020 Black Friday är ett utmärkt tillfälle att reflektera över våra konsumtionsmönster. Varför inte rabattera endast miljömärkta, cirkulära och socialt ansvarstagande produkter för att stötta producenterna i deras ansträngningar att utveckla mer hållbara alternativ? frågar Oksana Mont och Carl Dalhammar vid IIIEE samt Alexandra Davidsson från föreningen Medveten Konsumtion. Lä

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Published 2 December 2020 20 subject area and region-specific events - meet staff and students and get all your questions answered! Sign up via unibuddy.com Welcome to the Virtual Application Week event for Lund University, a world top 100 university! From December 7th-11th, 2020 you will be able to join several live stream events with both faculty advisors from each subject area and recruitment s

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By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 3 December 2020 NEWCOMERS (New Clean Energy Communities in a Changing European Energy System), an EU Horizon 2020 project, has launched Our Energy, an online platform for education, awareness-raising, and networking, focusing on new clean energy communities, energy transitions and related topics. Our Energy offers shor

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/newcomers-project-launched-our-energy-online-platform-education-and-awareness-raising-citizens-and-0 - 2025-07-09

Published 10 December 2020 In December 2020, Sharing Cities Sweden published a report on sharing cities and the sustainable development goals. Back in October 2019, over 200 people from around the world gathered at the Sharing Cities Summit in Sweden for a conference in Lund and an exhibition and workshops in Malmö. This public event was followed up by further analysis on this topic leading to the

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/cities-and-consumption-report-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-07-09

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 - 2025-07-09

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 - 2025-07-09

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 - 2025-07-09

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 - 2025-07-09

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

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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 - 2025-07-09

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 - 2025-07-09

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 - 2025-07-09

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 - 2025-07-09

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 - 2025-07-09

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 - 2025-07-09