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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 publication of this report

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/cities-and-consumption-report-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-11-11

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 such as nuclear power, hydro

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/electric-transition-research-project-receives-funding-mistra - 2025-11-11

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 organise and govern the energy s

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-episode-our-podcast-out-now-energy-communities-transition-towards-more-just-energy-system-0 - 2025-11-11

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 remove barriers to increas

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/report-circular-economy-electronic-waste - 2025-11-11

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. Originally I’m from Germany and

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-our-new-phd-student-lisa-heldt - 2025-11-11

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 levels – individual, business, city, and nation. We will look at the relationships bet

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-mooc-launch-14-september - 2025-11-11

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 currently working as the Deputy Chief negotiator for the

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/deputy-director-division-climate-ministry-environment-and-energy-career-iiiee-alumna - 2025-11-11

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 prices and a lack of electricity has led to a discussion among politicians in Swedish media. In a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/decentralized-energy-systems-give-advantages - 2025-11-11

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 sectors. The report is based on qualitative interviews with circular economy experts, researchers, a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-insights-circular-economy-cradlenet - 2025-11-11

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 - 2025-11-11

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 - 2025-11-11

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 breadth of existing scholarship, it aims to explore the type of socio-environmental contradictions an

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/special-issue-nature-based-solutions-journal-cities - 2025-11-11

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 establishment of multiple industrial symbiosis (IS) networks at local and regional level. This arti

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-can-local-governments-support-industrial-symbiosis-emerge - 2025-11-11

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 pathways for Sweden’s energy future. In Sweden, as in most other nations around the globe, the electric

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-competing-socio-technical-narratives-swedens-energy-future - 2025-11-11

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 the case for non-residential buildings. This article is intended to fill this research gap by mappi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/installing-photovoltaics-pv-barriers-and-enablers-experienced-non-residential-property-owners - 2025-11-11

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 environmental and social problems that we’re facing.  With repair we’re slowing down the impact on the environment

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/people-fixing-world-radio-documentary-produced-bbc - 2025-11-11

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 wider sustainability objectives. The finance sector is playing an ever growing role in supporti

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sustainable-finance-investing-our-future - 2025-11-11

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 researchers Heather Schoonover, Oksana Mont, and Matthias Lehner explores these barriers and disc

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-article-understanding-and-overcoming-barriers-home-furnishings-rental - 2025-11-11

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 blogpost In October 2019, over 200 people from around the world gathered at the Sharing Citi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/two-new-reports-future-sharing-cities-and-consumption - 2025-11-11

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 fertilizer in Kenya, where she grew up. Congratulations Elaine! You’re one of the winners of the Fu

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/student-elaine-mnkubitu-one-winners-future-innovation-prize - 2025-11-11