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Focusing on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policies for low carbon technologies A broad research interest in the field of environmental policy and a master’s degree in Environmental Management and Policy motivated Jessika Luth Richter to apply for PhD studies at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, where she is now doing her second year as a PhD candidate wit

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-phd-candidate-jessika-luth-richter - 2025-10-07

The August issue of the IIIEE Newsletter is out now. Follow the link Vol.1. No. 4, August, 2016IIIEE newsletter archive

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/august-issue-iiiee-newsletter-out-now - 2025-10-07

On Monday, 29 September, 14 students from 10 countries started their third semester of the Master Course in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management (MESPOM) at the IIIEE. The IIIEE runs the MESPOM programmes together with three other universities in Europe and two universities in North America. The group enrolled in Lund now is the 11th group since the MESPOM programme started in 2005. 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/arrival-day-our-mespom-students - 2025-10-07

On 1 September 2016 the Swedish Government presented five national joint action groups which are connected to the government’s five strategic research programmes, with the aim of developing the government’s innovation politics. Lena Neij at the IIIEE has been designated to be part of the joint action group on smart cities.Read the press release here

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lena-neij-appointed-swedish-government-member-national-joint-action-group-smart-cities - 2025-10-07

On 23 September 2016, the annual Graduation Day at the IIIEE takes place. This year it is batch 21 who graduates from the Master's programme in environmental management and policy (EMP programme) at the IIIEE.If you would like to be part of this event and did not get an invitation, please contact Håkan Rodhe, Director of External Relations at the IIIEE.View invitation here 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-graduation-day-23-september-2016 - 2025-10-07

The research project Post Conflict Futures had its first workshop 1-3 September as part of the scenario building project on the future of Syria organised by the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) and the Center for Middle East Studies (CMES).More than 30 Syrian scholars met to collectively discuss and reflect on possible developments in post-conflict Syria, and

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/first-scenario-building-workshop-post-conflict-futures-initiative - 2025-10-07

Assoc. Prof. Luis Mundaca and Prof. Lena Neij at the IIIEE guest edit a special issue in Applied Energy Entitled “Towards a Green Energy Economy? Assessing policy choices, strategies and transitional pathways”, the latest special issue of Applied Energy has been published open access and seeks to bring together the fields of green growth, environmental economics, energy, climate change, innovation

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/special-issue-towards-green-energy-economy-assessing-policy-choices-strategies-and-transitional - 2025-10-07

From Monday 19 September until Thursday 22 September, batch 21 of the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy are presenting and defending their Master's theses. The opponents are people from academia, business and industry.The week ends with the annual graduation ceremony in the Lund University Assembly Hall.Click on the link to view the MSc thesis presentation schedule

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-week-iiiee - 2025-10-07

Covering a story on Nashfa Hawwa from the Maldives On 23 September the IIIEE held its annual graduation ceremony for the MSc graduates who have spent 2 years at the Institute. One of the MSc graduates, Nashfa Hawwa from the Maldives, was interviewed by the newspaper Sydsvenskan.Read the whole article here (in Swedish only)

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-sydsvenskan - 2025-10-07

Arranged by the Swedish Consumer Agency On 12 October at 12:00-16:15, Prof. Oksana Mont at the IIIEE will discuss sustainable consumption at a seminar in Stockholm arranged by the Swedish consumer agency.For more information, please view the invitation here

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/oksana-mont-seminar-sustainable-consumption - 2025-10-07

Edited by Professors Max Koch and Oksana Mont On 18 October at 16:30 - 18:00 the book Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare will be launched at the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Biskopsgatan 3, Lund. The book raises the issue of what is required to make welfare societies ecologically sustainable. The book was a result of an interdisciplinary team of researchers from five

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/book-launch-sustainability-and-political-economy-welfare - 2025-10-07

12-13 October at the IIIEE On 12-13 October, three trial lectures will take place at the IIIEE for the position as “Professor in sustainable business management and practice - for a transition to low-carbon and resource efficient economies”.As part of the recruitment process for the position as “Professor in sustainable business management and practice - for a transition to low-carbon and resource

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/trial-lectures-position-professor-sustainable-business-management-and-practice-transition-low-carbon - 2025-10-07

On 10 - 11 October the IIIEE is hosting a conference with the title "Third decade of EPR - What lessons and experiences can be used for light sources and other products?"The IIIEE wishes to follow up the two decades of positive experiences in bringing together stakeholders and researchers around topical Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) issues.There are a number of key questions coming in the

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/third-decade-epr-what-lessons-and-experiences-can-be-used-light-sources-and-other-products - 2025-10-07

On Thursday, 13th of October, IIIEE researcher Yuliya Voytenko Palgan is giving a keynote speech at the European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels at European Commission premises. Her presentation Urban Living Labs and Governing Sustainability Transitions in Cities will be part of the workshop on Sustained and sustainable economic growth: Balancing economic and ecological development in citie

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researcher-yuliya-voytenko-gives-keynote-speech-brussels - 2025-10-07

On 14 October, Dr Charlie Wilson from the University of East Anglia (UK), will talk about Energy Transitions: Speeds, Characteristics, and the Benefits of Granularity. (Download pdf here)Seminar descriptionEnergy system challenges require a rapid and far-reaching transition. Historical energy transitions have been both fast and slow. Important determinants of transition speeds include: (1) technol

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/dr-charlie-wilson-energy-transitions-speeds-characteristics-and-benefits-granularity - 2025-10-07

A lunch-to-lunch workshop on EPR – extended producer responsibility – held at the IIIEE last week, on 10-11 October, with the project funding from the Swedish Energy Agency, brought forward a number of important issues and challenges related to EPR design and implementation.The workshop started with a 2-hour open session where experts engaged in EPR from various perspectives (industry, academia, N

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/third-decade-epr-what-lessons-and-experiences-can-be-used-light-sources-and-other-products-0 - 2025-10-07

There is growing evidence that Western welfare standards are not generalizable to the rest of the planet if environmental concerns, such as resource depletion or climate change, are considered. A new interdisciplinary anthology by researchers from Lund University raises the question of what is required to make welfare societies ecologically sustainable. Oksana Mont, professor at The International

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-reach-ecologically-sustainable-welfare-societies - 2025-10-07

26 October 2016 On 26 October, three trial lectures will take place at the IIIEE for the position as “Professor in policy analysis - for the transition to low-carbon and resource efficient economies”.As part of the recruitment process for the position as “Professor in policy analysis - for the transition to low-carbon and resource efficient economies” at the IIIEE, the Academic Appointments Board

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/trial-lectures-position-professor-policy-analysis-transition-low-carbon-and-resource-efficient - 2025-10-07

This policy brief is based on two behavioural economic field studies and informs policy makers how to make the roll-out of smart electricity meters more effective. Are electricity consumers irrational fools? They keep their devices in stand-by mode, forget to switch off the lights when they leave the room, purchase halogen light bulbs (instead of LEDs) because their light is supposedly more beauti

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-policy-brief-smart-electricity-meters-and-their-users - 2025-10-07

On 20 October, Mikael Backman, Director of the Swedish Polish Sustainable Energy Platform at the IIIEE, is speaking about Biogas production on the 6th International Trade Fair and Conferences for Renewable Energy, RENEXPO, in Warsaw, Poland, which takes place on 19-21 October 2016.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researcher-mikael-backman-biogas-production-renexpo-2016-poland - 2025-10-07