Published 17 September 2018 Photo: Shutterstock Article in Dagens Nyheter On 11 September, Dagens Nyheter published an article on the recent EU environmental committee proposal to have 40 % of all cars be run on electricity or to be hybrids by 2030. Professor Luis Mundaca at the IIIEE gave his opinion on the matter.Link to article here (In Swedish only)

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Published 26 September 2018 PhD candidate Jessika Luth Richter helps explore the critical materials in our electronics with the Restart Project as part of their podcast series. IIIEE PhD candidate Jessika Luth Richter is interviewed for a podcast on the topic of ‘critical’ materials that are found in our electronics. She talks about what makes materials ‘critical’, their global supplies, their min

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Published 1 October 2018 Students of the the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy are presenting their Master's theses. From Monday 1 October to 4 October (including one thesis on 28 September) is thesis defence week at the IIIEE. Students of the the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy are presenting their Master's theses. The opponents are people from ac

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Published 3 October 2018 Photo: Maarit Kytöharju It has now been decided that Per Mickwitz will be the new Director of the IIIEE, during the period of 2019-2021. He will be employed as professor of environmental policy and he will start his position at the IIIEE on 1 January 2019.Per Mickwitz is currently a research professor at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), his current employer, where

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Published 5 October 2018 Students of the the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy are graduating. On 5 October 2018, the annual Graduation Day at the IIIEE takes place. This year it is batch 23 who graduates from the Master's programme in environmental management and policy (EMP programme) at the IIIEE.If you have any questions regarding graduation day, please contact Håkan Ro

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/graduation-day-iiiee - 2025-06-27

Published 8 October 2018 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 t

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/ipcc-special-report-global-warming-15oc-has-been-approved-governments - 2025-06-27

Published 24 October 2018 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 collaborat

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/city-futures-collaboration-between-science-and-society-sustainable-solutions - 2025-06-27

Published 25 October 2018 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

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/can-we-limit-global-warming-15-degc - 2025-06-27

Published 12 November 2018 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 e

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/launch-new-mooc-and-podcast - 2025-06-27

Published 15 November 2018 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

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Published 19 November 2018 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,

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-smart-city-expo-world-congress-and-sharing-cities-summit - 2025-06-27

Published 26 November 2018 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 artic

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Published 26 November 2018 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 Di

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mickwitz-his-new-position-director-iiiee - 2025-06-27

Published 29 November 2018 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

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/we-stand-ceu - 2025-06-27

Av ellen [dot] albertsdottir [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir) - publicerad 24 april 2023 Ett nytt forskningsprojekt undersöker säkra och lagliga vägar till Europa för flyktingar. Foto: Unsplash Flyktingkrisen i Europa, liksom kriget i Ukraina, har visat på begränsningarna i asylsystemen. Nu startar ett nytt forskningsprojekt med fokus på flyktingar från Ukraina och Syrien för att u

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Av ellen [dot] albertsdottir [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir) - publicerad 24 april 2023 Han ­Somsen vill ­ställa naturen över lagen. Foto: Kennet Ruona Han Somsen är ny professor i miljörätt vid Juridiska fakulteten. Mest känd är han för sin rekommendation att din fågeldödare till katt bör hållas inomhus. – Människan ser sig själva som herrar på täppan. Det inkluderar deras katter

https://www.jur.lu.se/artikel/dodshotades-nar-han-ville-halla-alla-katter-inne - 2025-06-27

Publicerad 24 april 2023 Soo-hyun Lee är den första av Forskarskolan Agenda 2030:s doktorander som nu kan titulera sig doktor. I bakgrunden syns vänner ur forskarskolan. Foto: Sara Håkansson Soo-hyun Lee har studerat på tre kontinenter, arbetat för en handfull FN-organisationer, varit konsult åt megakoncerner och drivit eget företag. Nu är han som doktorand vid Juridiska fakulteten den första av F

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Av ellen [dot] albertdottir [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir) - publicerad 24 april 2023 Vad gäller rent juridiskt i tid av krig, och hur påverkar det mänskliga rättigheter? Forskare vid fakulteten svarar. Hur påverkas mänskliga rättigheter under ett pågående krig? Forskare vid fakulteten medverkar i temat "Forskning i Fokus: Mänskliga rättigheter i tid av krig och oro". Forskning i

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Av ellen [dot] albertsdottir [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir) - publicerad 10 maj 2023 Representanter från religion och akademi möttes i ett samtal om komplexa frågor på Juridiska fakulteten. Bör svensk lag förbjuda att skrifter, som koraner, som anses vara heliga bränns? Kan det redan anses vara olagligt? Tre religiösa ledare och två jurister möttes i ett samtal på Juridicum den 8

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Publicerad 13 juni 2023 Rektor har den 1 juni fattat beslut om att anställa Martin Sunnqvist som professor i rättshistoria vid Juridiska fakulteten. Martin Sunnqvists forskning är inriktad mot komparativ rättshistoria med särskilt fokus på konstitutionell och processrättslig historia. Han intresserar sig för frågor om rättsstaten i Europa och domares oavhängighet och opartiskhet. Han har erfarenhe

https://www.jur.lu.se/artikel/martin-sunnqvist-ny-professor-i-rattshistoria - 2025-06-27