Published 4 January 2023 A new study shows points to the importance of political support of municipalities however also points to the common barriers among municipalities which are lack of expertise, capacity and financial resources. Half of the EU’s final energy consumption is made up by the heating and cooling sector, making this an important sector for reducing fossil fuel consumption. What rol

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/what-role-can-energy-communities-play-decarbonising-heating-sector - 2025-07-09

Published 17 January 2023 ​​​​​​​What kind of knowledge is produced in social science studies on smart grids? Smart technologies, such as smart grids, are emerging as indispensable aspects of an energy transformation and come with hopes of more sustainable resource use. A substantial amount of research has examined the technical, economic, and environmental implications of these technologies, but

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/development-social-science-research-smart-grids - 2025-07-09

Published 23 October 2015 Duncan McLaren in the IIIEE Aula On 20 October, guest lecturer Duncan McLaren will visit the IIIEE and give a lecture on the theme: Sharing Cities for Sustainability.The lecture will cover the principles and dilemmas of sharing economy in cities and focus on what city authorities can do to promote the sharing paradigm, and manage the sharing economy to maximise its enviro

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/guest-lecture-duncan-mclaren-sharing-cities-sustainability - 2025-07-09

Published 23 October 2015 IIIEE students EMP 2016-2018! The application for the Master's Programme in Environmental Management and Policy (EMP) at the IIIEE is now open.The application period is 16 October 2015 - 15 January 2016.For more information, please view the university admissions' website

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/application-now-open-next-round-master-students-iiiee - 2025-07-09

Published 23 October 2015 Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities – A Massive Open Online CourseHow can we shape urban development towards sustainable and prosperous futures?This course explores sustainable cities as engines for greening the economy. We place cities in the context of sustainable urban transformation and climate change. Sustainable urban tr

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/greening-economy-sustainable-cities-massive-open-online-course - 2025-07-09

Published 24 January 2023 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 longe

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/january-24-official-circular-electronics-day - 2025-07-09

Published 30 January 2023 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

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-fast-can-we-stop-using-coal-power-and-what-does-it-mean-climate - 2025-07-09

Published 2 February 2023 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 transitio

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/15deg-degree-lifestyle-highlighted-fridays-future - 2025-07-09

Published 7 February 2023 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 uncov

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/what-product-destruction - 2025-07-09

Published 10 February 2023 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, whi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/masters-students-learn-more-about-hoganas-ab - 2025-07-09

Published 13 February 2023 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 co

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-can-we-phase-out-coal-power - 2025-07-09

Published 21 February 2023 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

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/what-are-impacts-car-sharing - 2025-07-09

Published 15 February 2023 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 firs

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/study-visit-paper-sodra-morrum - 2025-07-09

Published 8 March 2023 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

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/newspaper-article-inner-sustainability-journey - 2025-07-09

Published 14 March 2023 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 rec

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-can-economic-value-waster-water-drive-collaboration-and-industrial-symbiosis - 2025-07-09

Published 13 March 2023 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 utvecklin

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-bidrar-till-debatten-om-forskares-roll-som-aktivister - 2025-07-09

Published 23 March 2023 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 innovatio

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/can-climate-city-contracts-lead-towards-deep-decarbonisation - 2025-07-09

Published 28 March 2023 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 poli

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-can-individual-changes-or-political-shifts-help-reduce-emissions-and-reach-climate-goals - 2025-07-09

Published 29 March 2023 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

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/climate-neutral-cities-2030-open-academy - 2025-07-09

Published 4 April 2023 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 e

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/experimenting-new-climate-policy-tools - 2025-07-09