Published 30 May 2018 Researchers from the CEC comments climate change and risk management on Swedish national radio. Johanna Alkan Olsson answers questions regarding if there is a connection between climate change and the nice spring weather in Sweden this year.Listen to the interview with Johanna on sverigesradio.se.Ullrika Sahlin answers questions about risk management in research.Listen to the

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Published 4 June 2018 The CEC and Lund University is part of the core team for Climate-KIC's latest Flagship programme, eCircular, aiming to crack down on plastic waste and radically reduce the use of plastic materials. The project eCircular aims to explore and use innovative digital tools to improve plastics waste prevention. This can, for example, include blockchain solutions for improved market

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By hanna [dot] holm [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Holm) - published 19 June 2018 While attending the 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology organized by the Society for Conservation Biology last week in Jyväskylä, Finland, CEC's Lovisa Nilsson was awarded First Place for her outstanding student poster. Lovisa has studied annual flower strips used to compensate for biodiversity losses in

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Published 10 August 2018 Photo: Johan Ekroos The COST project has been studying if there is any difference in biodiversity found at organic and conventional farms. Some of our colleagues at the CEC have spent summer doing fieldwork studying bumblebees. Romain Carrié and others from the COST project have collected pollen from bumblebees and surveyed flower resources at 19 different farms in Skåne.–

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Published 16 August 2018 The CEC has produced a new report evaluating analyses and data collection of winter loss in honeybees in Sweden. Swedish beekeeping rely on the health of the honey bee Apis mellifera. Loss of colonies during winter is an indicator of poor honey bee health.This report evaluates current data collection of winter loss in honey bees in Sweden, with the purpose to give recommen

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Published 5 September 2018 ClimBEco is a two-year graduate research school that promotes young scientists to engage in interdisciplinary research on climate, earth system and society in a changing world. The annual summer meeting was held August 29–30 in Höllviken, with the theme ‘Land use and ecosystem-based climate adaptation’. Inspiring talks by Terese Thoni (CEC, Lund University), Åsa Kasimir

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Published 26 September 2019 What are the enabling conditions and driving forces for nature-based solutions in the context of urban sustainability transitions? And how do innovation pathways play a role for nature-based solutions? Innovation pathways are a journey: from the initial idea and its demonstration, to its broader uptake within policy, industry and society.The Innovation Pathways Director

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Published 26 September 2019 Capstone SED/SSC projects for clients in seven countries during October 2019 In October, it is time for our final-year master students, batch 25, to do their client projects as part of the course Sustainability Solutions in Context (SSC), formerly titled Strategic Environmental Development (SED) course. This course leads student teams to projects all over the world. The

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Published 26 September 2019 Pranshu Singhal founded Karo Sambhav to help enterprises close their material loops. In this video, IIIEE alumnus, Pranshu Singhal, tells his story of his takeaways from the EMP programme at the IIIEE, and how his company, Karo Sambhav, makes a difference by helping enterprises close their material loops.  

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Published 27 September 2019 Students of the the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy are presenting their Master's theses. From Monday 30 September to Thursday 3 October 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 academia, business and ind

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Published 30 September 2019 Photo: Ann Åkerman Involving 14 institutions across Europe NATURVATION involves 14 institutions across Europe working in fields as diverse as urban development, innovation studies, geography, ecology, environmental assessment and economics. Our partnership includes city governments, non-governmental organisations and business.We are assessing what nature-based solutions

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Published 30 September 2019 A café discussion about energy and how to heat our homes in a sustainable way in the future. This event is part of the Future Week at Lund University, 14-20 October. During Future Week at Lund University, the IIIEE is organising Walking energy, talking energy, a café discussion, that aims to encourage the participants of the event to share experiences and visions of how

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Published 9 October 2019 Join a game-changing conference and exhibition in Sweden on the emerging sharing economy in cities! Sharing Cities Sweden is organising a conference and exhibition on exploring the role of sharing cities in advancing the sustainable development goals, the Sharing Cities Summit.See more information on the emerging program (updated over time) of the event as well as the prac

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Published 14 October 2019 The institute will be part of a new International Energy Agency (IEA) Task on energy efficiency. The IEA-DSM ‘Hard-to-Reach’ (HTR) project will generate knowledge, approaches and policy recommendations aiming to identify HTR energy users and effectively engage them in energy efficiency programmes.The research will support the development of robust social science-based gui

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Published 21 October 2019 Circular Economy Mini-Series: part 1 of 3 Hear the latest about the Circular Economy in our new podcast episode, now available on all major podcats platforms! 

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Published 21 October 2019 Our Director Per Mickwitz among the new professors honoured On 18 October, Lund University held their inauguration ceremony for 2019 and among the 28 new professors honoured were our Director, Professor Per Mickwitz.Link to the publication of the inauguration of new professors at Lund University 2019

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Published 21 October 2019 Peter Arnfalk interviewed by TV4 news IIIEE's research on virtual meetings has helped public agencies in Sweden reduce up to 50 % of CO2 from business travel. A project involving 80 Swedish public agencies, the REMM project, based on IIIEE research on virtual meetings, has helped the agencies to significantly reduce their CO2 emission from travel with up to 53 %.Swedish d

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Published 21 October 2019 'Urban Sharing in Amsterdam: City report No. 1' The Urban Sharing Team has published their first City Report from their research project. Urban Sharing in Amsterdam City Report is the result of a Mobile Research Lab conducted in Amsterdam in Spring 2019.The research is part of the five-year research programme Urban Sharing, funded by the European Research Council (2018-20

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Published 25 October 2019 Kes McCormick represented the IIIEE for the TRANSFORM project in Toronto, Canada on 23-25 October. The TRANSFORM project integrates innovative academic research with entrepreneurial experimentation and extensive collaboration among the academic, private and public sectors with the development of hubs in Canada, USA, Sweden, Germany and Australia. Associate Professor Kes M

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Published 18 November 2019 IIIEE researchers Jessika Luth Richter and Carl Dalhammar have authored a new book on planned obsolescence (PO), together with staff at the Fores think tank.The book, Planned Obsolescence – Built not to last, is published by the European Liberal Forum and explains what PO is and provides examples of PO. It furthemore outlines the links between Circular Economy and Climat

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