Luis Mundaca, Lead author of the IPCC Special Report and Summary for Policymakers, and Professor of Policy Analysis at the IIIEE at Lund University, comments on the report. The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC was approved by the IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) on Saturday in Incheon, Republic of Korea. It will be a key scientific input into the Katowice Climate Chang

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/ipcc-special-report-global-warming-15oc-has-been-approved-governments - 2025-08-25

Sustainable city futures need experimentation and innovation developed through collaboration between academia and social actors.On Thursday 11 October 2018, the IIIEE organized a City Futures Conference series in Lund, Sweden. The aim was to bring together academia, municipalities and regional actors within business and industry to discuss how to strengthen the collaboration between science and po

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/city-futures-collaboration-between-science-and-society-sustainable-solutions - 2025-08-25

IIIEE researcher Luis Mundaca Photo: Sara Bernstrup Nilsson Efforts to combat climate change tend to focus on supply-side changes, such as shifting to renewable or cleaner energy. In a Special Issue in the Energy Efficiency Journal that follows the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ˚C, researchers argue that demand-side approaches can play a crucial role given the aspirational target ou

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/can-we-limit-global-warming-15-degc - 2025-08-25

Focusing on Circular Economy 12 November 2018 MOOCWe are proud to present a new MOOC in the Greening the Economy series:Circular Economy - Sustainable Materials Management!This free, on-line course looks at where important materials in products we use every day come from and how these materials can be used more efficiently, longer, and in closed loops.The MOOC involves expert researchers and pract

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/launch-new-mooc-and-podcast - 2025-08-25

On 14 November, the winners of the yearly award "Årets framtidsbyggare" was announced during a ceremony at Skissernas museum. The yearly award "Årets framtidsbyggare" is a prize (1.2 million SEK) with three categories: 1) "Årets innovatör" (The innovator of the year, 750 000 SEK), 2) "Årets opinionsbildare" (The opinion-former of the year), 3) "Årets talang" (The talent of the year).This year, 7 s

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/winners-yearly-award-arets-framtidsbyggare-announced-0 - 2025-08-25

Kes McCormick, Lucie Zvolska and Yuliya Voytenko Palgan Yuliya Voytenko, Lucie Zvolska and Kes McCormick are in Barcelona attending the Smart City Expo World Congress, SCEWC, (where some 20,000 people are gathering to talk about smart cities of the future) and the Sharing Cities Summit, which is the leading event for the sharing economy in cities. Sharing Cities Sweden, which is coordinated by the

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-smart-city-expo-world-congress-and-sharing-cities-summit - 2025-08-25

Photo: Shutterstock "Sweden needs to deal with the effects of consumption" Professor Oksana Mont at the IIIEE, along with several other experts, recently co-authored an opinion piece on the effects of consumption in Svenska Dagbladet.The article especially highlights the need for powerful politics to limit consumption and its effects on our climate.    Link to full article (in Swedish only)  

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/opinion-piece-svenska-dagbladet - 2025-08-25

Photo: Maarit Kytöharju During the period of 2019-2021. Per Mickwitz will be the new Director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), during the period of 2019-2021. Per Mickwitz is currently the Research Director of the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), where he is also a research professor.  As of 1 January 2019, he will be Director of the IIIEE and he

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mickwitz-his-new-position-director-iiiee - 2025-08-25

Photo: Håkan Röjder We stand with Central European University, CEU!We have had 15 years of fruitful collaboration with CEU, notably on our joint MESPOM master programme where we have had a steady flow of creative talent from all over the world.CEU is important. In so many ways, and to so many people.We will continue to support CEU.And look forward to do more great things together!

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/we-stand-ceu - 2025-08-25

Organizations can innovate to address environmental and social problems — but they need to build the right culture. Professor Nancy Bocken at the IIIEE, has co-authored an article on Driving Sustainability-Oriented Innovation, published in MIT Sloan Management Review.In the article, the authors take a closer look at what a Sustainability-Oriented Innovation Culture looks like and how such a cultur

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/driving-sustainability-oriented-innovation - 2025-08-25

Johanna Lissinger Peitz Foto: Roger Turesson With climate change realities affecting us all we are extra keen to follow the work of our alumna Johanna Lissinger Peitz, Sweden's cheif negotiator and one of three climate negotiators representing the EU in the upcoming Katowice COP24 meeting.The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter wrote an article about Johanna Lissinger Peitz, her role as climate negot

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-alumna-johanna-lissinger-peitz-eu-climate-negotiator-katowice-cop24-meeting - 2025-08-25

In a time of growing inequality, this special issue explores justice, policy and sustainability aspects related to low-carbon energy systems. Prof. Luis Mundaca together with colleagues from LUCSUS, University of St. Andrews, University of Sussex, University of Dundee, and Stellenbosch University have concluded the special issue on Low Carbon Energy Systems and Energy Justice, published in Applied

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/low-carbon-energy-systems-and-energy-justice - 2025-08-25

With a growing interest in the Circular Economy, where new business models are needed, the role of the consumer needs to be explored and this study contributes to this need with an expert study. A team of researchers from Lund University (Nancy Bocken) and TU Delft (Vivian Tunn, Ellis van den Hende, Jan Schoormans), led by PhD researcher Vivian Tunn have conducted an expert study on the role of th

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/business-models-sustainable-consumption-circular-economy-expert-study - 2025-08-25

The third and successful workshop was held at the IIIEE on 1-3 December 2016. Photo: Håkan Rodhe The third and final scenario building workshop under the post conflict futures initiative of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), took place at the IIIEE on 1-3 December 2016.In the workshop, researchers from the II

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/third-and-final-scenario-building-workshop-post-conflict-futures-initiative - 2025-08-25

IIIEE researcher Kes McCormick at the Sustainable City Development conference in Malmö, Sweden. Kes McCormick presented findings from the Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions (GUST)  project at the Sustainable City Development conference in Malmö, Sweden.Urban Living Labs (ULLs) have emerged as an approach to experimentation in real-life city settings. They can be defined as sites (build

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/catalyzing-sustainable-cities-through-urban-living-labs - 2025-08-25

Jonas Sonnenschein Photo: Blaž Samec Focusing on low-carbon economy. Jonas Sonnenschein is a PhD candidate at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University. He has a background in Philosophy & Economics (BA) from Germany – where he originally comes from – and he holds a Master in Environmental Management and Policy (MSc). Before moving to Lund for Ph

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-phd-candidate-jonas-sonnenschein - 2025-08-25

The Academic Collaboration Chile Sweden (ACCESS), in Santiago, Chile. In the beginning of December 2016, Lund University, including the IIIEE, and Uppsala University met with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad de Chile in Santiago, Chile, to sign an intent of a bilateral collaboration project between Chile and Sweden. A historic kick-off took place and marked the beginning of

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/access-academic-collaboration-chile-sweden - 2025-08-25

On 15 December, IIIEE students are presenting key current knowledge on life cycle impacts of LED light. During the semester the students have analysed a range of studies related to various phases of the life cycle of LED light. The research results will now be compiled into a report intended for a broad audience. Their research is being conducted within the Lighting Metropolis project and on 15 De

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/life-cycle-impacts-led-light - 2025-08-25

The IIIEE team, consisting of 14 MESPOM students and Associate Professors Thomas Lindhqvist & Mikael Backman. A review by the IIIEE & the Lighting Metropolis project The IIIEE and the Lighting Metropolis project present state-of-the-art knowledge regarding sustainability aspects of LED throughout its entire life cycle in an exclusive and full review: The Life Cycle of LED.The review is the first s

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/life-cycle-led - 2025-08-25

Comparing energy transitions in Germany and Japan. In a new publication Professor Aleh Cherp leads an international team of co-authors to compare the development of nuclear and renewable energy in Germany and Japan. The article solves a puzzle of why since the 1990s Germany has become a leader in renewables while phasing out nuclear energy, whereas Japan has used less renewables while becoming a l

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-comparing-development-nuclear-and-renewable-energy-germany-and-japan - 2025-08-25