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Our PhD candidate Gina Song Lopez has recently published her article titled “Going Plant-Forward? Dietary Publics and Plant-Based Lifestyle Advocacy in Contemporary China” in Asian Studies Review. The article discusses China’s growing vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian ‘dietary publics’ across online and offline foodscapes. The study combines digital food studies with onsite fieldwork, and foregro
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/going-plant-forward-china - 2026-05-17
Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was President of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024, utilized Buddhist diplomacy to ensure his political legitimacy and longevity - similarly to other Sri Lankan leaders of state Tabita Rosendal has published a new open‑access book chapter in Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia, edited by Jack Meng‑Tat Chia, examining Ranil Wickremesinghe’s use of Buddhist diplomacy. Th
Researcher Dr. Elizabeth Rhoads was recently interviewed in Nature about her work with Myanmar students and educational providers in displacement. The Pilot Capstone Project led by Lund University and housed at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies is an international consortium including University of Toronto, Northern Illinois University, University of Montana, and Palacky University
Björn Wickenberg and Kes McCormick, researchers from IIIEE and SLU, attending a major conference on Earth System Governance. In 2023, the Earth System Governance Conference is hosted by Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The Earth System Governance Conference features a focus on bridging sciences and societies for sustainability transformations – highlighting inter-disciplinarity and
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-earth-system-governance-conference - 2026-05-17
The IIIEE in collaboration with Viable Cities has launched a new online course on cities, climate and change with a focus on developing transformative skills and capacities. This course explores how we can design, create and achieve climate neutral and sustainable cities. We embrace the “mission to the moon” approach for tackling greenhouse emissions from cities putting an emphasis on pathw
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/cities-climate-and-change-new-online-course-iiiee - 2026-05-17
The Knowledge platform Climate-neutral cities 2030 – Open Academy continues the quest to bring researchers and Mission cities together to explore the paths forward for climate-neutrality. After focusing on the mobility and transportation sector in spring, we now turn our attention towards the role of carbon storage as a means to support cities to become climate-neutral. We kick-started November by
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/climate-neutral-cities-2030-next-steps-carbon-storage - 2026-05-17
IIIEE will be co-hosting a webinar and high-level panel discussion on Energy Efficiency, on the 17th of November, and Lena Neij will be the moderator, Can we transform the energy system without energy efficiency? The growing challenges of today's society calls for a wider discussion on energy efficiency. A key question is if we can transform the energy system without energy efficiency. The IIIEE
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/high-level-panel-energy-efficiency - 2026-05-17
IIIEE researchers Anna Elfström and Josefine Henman presented research findings on rebound effects and social risks of lifestyle changes in line with the 1.5° target at the Lund University conference "Knowledge for Sustainable Development - How to make impact". On November 7, Lund University's organized the annual conference focusing on sustainability research. This year’s theme was "Knowledge for
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/conference-presentation-rebound-effects-and-social-risks-lifestyle-changes - 2026-05-17
A recent grant from Formas will support a new transdisciplinary project exploring “Re-” activities of reuse, repair, refurbishing and recycling in practice. Jessika Richter, IIIEE, together with Hervé Corvellec, the Department of Service Studies at Lund University, and Anna Seravalli, School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University, will undertake a new research project exploring the organizi
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-research-project-reuse-repair-and-recycling-consumers-good-and-their-components - 2026-05-17
Malmö, Helsingborg and Lund, all aiming to be climate-neutral cities by 2030, will together with the IIIEE conduct pilot studies focusing on citizen dialogue and climate investment plans. The Mission cities Helsingborg, Lund, and Malmö have all been granted funding for pilot studies concerning accelerating climate-neutrality. The knowledge platform Climate-neutral cities 2030 – Open Academy, which
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/three-new-pilot-studies-accelerating-climate-neutrality - 2026-05-17
In mid-November, the annual national conference for student chaplains were held in Lund. The doctoral students of IIIEE, Frans Libertson and Gustav Osberg, were invited to talk about the opinion piece that they authored for Sydsvenskan earlier this year. The student chaplains have recently experienced an increase in the amount of students that seek help for climate anxiety and existential reflecti
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/hope-agency-and-future-inner-transitions-and-tools-continued-hope - 2026-05-17
The IIIEE alumna Iryna Stavchuk, student in our Master in Environmental Management and Policy, 2004-2005, is nominated as one of the BBC 100 most inspiring and influential women 2023! There is a lot going on about our alumna Iryna Stavchuk. The war pushed her out of her deputy-minster of the environment post in Kiev and out of her country, picking new roles in relation to Ukraine and climate issue
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-alumna-bbc-100-list-most-inspiring-and-influential-women-2023 - 2026-05-17
IIIEE researcher Matthias Lehner recently featured in an article for Mistra, discussing the intricate relationship between digitization and sustainable consumption. Children who prioritize Minecoins over real currency, and young men engrossed in driving virtual cars in computer games could be early signs of a larger shift in values and preferences triggered by increasing digitalization of everyday
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/digitization-friend-or-foe-sustainable-consumption-interview-iiiee-researcher - 2026-05-17
In the recent assessment from QS World University Rankings, Lund University was ranked as number 8 in the world, number three in Europe and number one in Sweden! The ranking is an assessment on how universities are tackling the global challenges within sustainability. This is the second year the rankings have been produced, and LU has climbed four places compared with last year’s position. The ran
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lund-university-climbs-global-sustainability-global-ranking - 2026-05-17
How can we advance and deliver solutions to our pressing sustainability challenges? This question motivates our master students and in the final year they get to practice their skills in real-life consulting projects. Nine student teams got the opportunity to explore, analyse and propose solutions to a client partnering with the IIIEE. The projects completed include:Circularity of rare earth metal
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/capstone-project-successfully-concluded-creating-impact-while-studying - 2026-05-17
In order to achieve the 1.5-degree target set by the Paris Agreement, massive cuts in carbon emissions are needed. For the EU, this requires a reduction of household carbon footprints from 2015 of almost 70% by 2030 and over 90% by 2050. Too often, climate policies are not placed within a broader social context and policy makers neglect to see that welfare policies are vital to climate mitigation.
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/eu-project-shows-welfare-policies-are-vital-climate-mitigation - 2026-05-17
How easy is it to determine which travel route is more sustainable or to adopt a sufficiency approach? IIIEE researcher gives her reflections on her mitigated travel patterns in a new LU blog post series highlighting sustainable travelling. In summer 2023, Lund University launched a new blog series with to shed some light on sustainable travelling. The blog features LU researchers who try to reduc
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/can-sufficiency-help-define-travel-quality-time-climate-crisis - 2026-05-17
2023 turned out to be a year with many milestones such as an ever-growing alumni group (Batch 30 has joined!), a record diversity of student nationalities, new and highly relevant research projects, renovation work up to the roof (including solar panels!) and great achievements in our educational program and courses. The past year had not been possible without the devotion and involvement of all o
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/looking-forward-new-year-2024 - 2026-05-17
New research article has found that the renewables and fossil fuels markets have both been influenced by major political effects - but in different ways. In a new article by Samson Mukanjari, IIIEE, and Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg, have examined the effects of three events with major importance for climate policy on energy sector stocks were studied: the Paris Agreement, the Trump ele
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-do-climate-policy-shocks-affect-value-energy-sector-firms-0 - 2026-05-17
Unlocking the Power of Collective Action – A new research article examines the role of latent networks in mainstreaming solar PV practices in Germany. Katharina Reindl, IIIEE, together with Eva Heiskanen from University of Helsinki and Salvatore Ruggiero from LUT University have published a new article focusing focusing on mainstreaming residential photovoltaics in Germany. The research shows that
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/shadows-light-role-latent-networks-mainstreaming-solar-pv-practices - 2026-05-17
