Mark this day by learning how you can make electronics more circular! Today is the official Circular Electronics Day and the IIIEE is participating. For the sixth year in a row, the 24th of January means the Circular Electronics Day. The IIIEE is a participating organisation in the Circular Electronics Initiative. The goal is to create awareness about the need for a longer life for electronic prod

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/january-24-official-circular-electronics-day - 2025-08-29

A new paper by Aleh Cherp and several co-authors published in Environmental Research Letters asks what is the fastest realistic rate of global coal phase-out and what it means for the climate.  The paper signals both good and bad news. The good news are that more and more countries promise to phase out coal, including poorer economies that rely more on coal, have younger power plants and weaker de

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-fast-can-we-stop-using-coal-power-and-what-does-it-mean-climate - 2025-08-29

Public seminar with discussions and questions around lifestyle options and structural changes. On Thursday, January 26th, Fridays for Future held their second “Ask A Researcher” event in Lund. IIIEE researcher Jessika Luth Richter introduced the EU 1.5 lifestyle project and answered questions about different lifestyle options and the structural changes needed to transition to a low-carbon society

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/15deg-degree-lifestyle-highlighted-fridays-future - 2025-08-29

Exploring unsustainable production-consumption systems and appropriate policy responses The practice of product destruction, whereby retailers or manufacturers dispose of viable consumer products such as unsold goods or customer returns, is an extreme expression of the linearity of our current production-consumption system. This qualitative exploratory study aims to uncover why companies engage in

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/what-product-destruction - 2025-08-29

This year's first study visit focused on the operations and environmental management work at Höganäs AB. On 8th February master's students from the program Environmental Management and Policy visited Höganäs AB to learn more about environmental hotspots and approaches to address them. Höganäs AB is an energy intense industry and struggling with extreme energy prices, which is adding to the complex

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/masters-students-learn-more-about-hoganas-ab - 2025-08-29

Phasing out coal for 2 °C target requires worldwide replication of most ambitious national plans despite security and fairness concerns. Ending the use of unabated coal power is a key climate change mitigation measure. However, we do not know how fast it is feasible to phase-out coal on the global scale. Historical experience of individual countries indicates feasible coal phase-out rates, but can

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-can-we-phase-out-coal-power - 2025-08-29

Economic impacts, carbon footprint and rebound effects of car sharing. Car sharing is promoted as one alternative to decrease emissions from personal transport in cities. Most emission assessments have focused on the production and use phase of car sharing, but few have focused on the impacts of changes in consumption. In this article I assess changes in the total output from various sectors and i

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/what-are-impacts-car-sharing - 2025-08-29

Södra Cells in Mörrum received masters' students from the IIIEE to discuss principles and methods of in environmental management. Students from batch 30 in the master's program Environmental Management in Policy recently went out for another day the in real-life class-room. Study visits are fantastic to see and discuss a lot of the things taught in class. On top the first hand visit and experienci

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/study-visit-paper-sodra-morrum - 2025-08-29

Article in the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan highlights the relevance of an inner sustainability journey. Doktoranderna Frans Libertson och Gustav Osberg från IIIEE har tittat på vilken roll en inre förändring his individer och bland företag kan ha för hållbar utveckling. I en artikel i Sydsvenskan skriver de att "företag och organisationer behöver se över sina visionsplaner, projektledning, arbet

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/newspaper-article-inner-sustainability-journey - 2025-08-29

A new article explores the economic value of waster water in an emerging urban circular wastewater system in the context of industrial urban symbiosis. Circular water management has the potential to close resource and material loops within and across value chains. In the water industry, circular municipal wastewater management through industrial urban symbiosis (IUS) is recognized as a solution to

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-can-economic-value-waster-water-drive-collaboration-and-industrial-symbiosis - 2025-08-29

IIIEE forskare deltar i debatten om rätten och behovet att påverka utvecklingen på det sätt som de bedömer vara mest effektivt och rationellt. Forskningens roll är att bidra med kunskap som ska ligga till grund för beslut som är bäst för samhället. Forskare landet över menar dock att det är tydligt att konventionella kanaler och metoder inte fungerar för att vända utvecklingen. Därför kan det före

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-bidrar-till-debatten-om-forskares-roll-som-aktivister - 2025-08-29

New article investigates climate city contracts in Sweden and discusses how to achieve 100 climate neutral cities in Europe. The European Commission has established a mission to achieve 100 climate neutral cities by 2030. A key element in the process is for municipalities to develop a Climate City Contract (CCC). Simultaneously, Viable Cities, a national strategic innovation program in Sweden, is

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/can-climate-city-contracts-lead-towards-deep-decarbonisation - 2025-08-29

IIIEE researcher Jessika Richter speaks out on national TV about how each one of us can make changes to reduce our emissions. On 6 March, IIIEE researcher Jessika Richter spoke on national TV about how lifestyle changes can help reduce emissions. She emphasised that we need to focus on both the impacts we can influence and those we can't. "Influencing companies through political changes is at leas

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-can-individual-changes-or-political-shifts-help-reduce-emissions-and-reach-climate-goals - 2025-08-29

The IIIEE is proud to present the knowledge platform Climate-neutral cities 2030 – Open Academy! The intention with this knowledge platform is to support the three EU Mission cities Malmö, Helsingborg and Lund in their quest to become climate-neutral by 2030. This by building transformative processes that can spur action and support transdisciplinary research. The knowledge platform connects the c

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/climate-neutral-cities-2030-open-academy - 2025-08-29

A new pilot study to test mindfulness and compassion as new climate policy tools. The latest IPCC report has emphasised that the climate must be at the heart of all decision-making processes. In addition, the ‘Inner Development Goals’ have emphasised the role of individuals and transformative skills for sustainable development. We addressed these areas and deployed a pilot experiment testing mindf

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/experimenting-new-climate-policy-tools - 2025-08-29

Open Academy has concluded its first joint workshop with representatives from the cities of Malmö, Helsingborg, Lund, Lund university, Malmö university, and SLU Alnarp, among others. In April, the knowledge platform Climate-neutral cities 2030 – Open Academy held its first joint workshop on the theme of mobility and transportation. Emissions related to mobility and transportation account for a lar

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/joining-efforts-climate-neutral-cities-workshop-mobility-and-transportation - 2025-08-29

On Thursday April 20, the IIIEE invited the public to an event as part of the Sustainability Week in Lund, with both a seminar and networking. As part of the Sustainability Week in Lund, IIIEE opened the doors to the public for a panel discussion on the lifelong learning to advance sustainable urban solutions. Moderator was Björn Wickenberg from the Malmö Stad/IIIEE who opened the session with a f

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/public-seminar-lifelong-learning-and-sustainable-urban-solutions - 2025-08-29

The IIIEE Alumni Network Conference has kicked in! About 250 conference participants meeting to weave solutions for a better future. The 13th IIIEE Alumni Conference has now kicked in, gathering 150 of our one thousand alumni; with staff & students in total 250+ participants! 25+ of our student batches will be represented! Two full conference days and networking, discussions focusing on how IIIEE

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/13th-iiiee-alumni-conference-taking-place-now - 2025-08-29

The IIIEE graduate Hedda Roberts has been awarded first prize in an annual competition with her thesis on the topic "Take-Make-Destroy - Exploring Unsustainable Production-Consumption Systems and Policies to Address Product Destruction". IIIEE master thesis wins SYSAV scholarship Hedda Roberts won the first prize in SYSAV’s annual thesis competition. SYSAV, the South Scania Waste Company, is owned

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-master-thesis-wins-sysav-scholarship - 2025-08-29

New research in five EU countries reveals stakeholders’ views on what is needed to enable a shift towards 1.5° C-compatible lifestyles. Bans and taxes for unsustainable behaviour and outcomes, positive incentives for low-carbon attitudes, and better public funding for basic services, are seen as essential climate policies to overcome current barriers to action at the household level - according to

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sticks-and-carrots-what-should-governments-do-radical-lifestyle-change - 2025-08-29