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Associate Professor Kes McCormick at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) has achieved 100,000 downloads of his publications in Lund University Publications (LUP), which is the institutional repository for scholarly publications from Lund University.His most downloaded publication is the Greening the Economy Compendium with some 20,000 downloads. He has 4 publ

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/100000-downloads-publications-and-counting - 2025-11-18

Kes McCormick, the programme coordinator for Sharing Cities Sweden, has presented the national programme at two Australian Universities in June 2019 – the Centre for Urban Transitions at Swinburne University of Technology and the Monash Sustainable Development Institute at Monash University.The presentations focused on the ambitions of Sharing Cities Sweden, the emerging findings on the sharing ec

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-presentations-australian-universities - 2025-11-18

IIIEE researchers Yuliya Voytenko and Kes McCormick have joined a group of international researchers to act as guest editors for a Special Issue on smart and sustainable cities in the Local Environment journal. The special issues brings together a diverse collection of papers that explore the relationship between urban sustainability and smart city development. Read more on the Local Environment,

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-guest-editors-special-issue-smart-and-sustainable-cities - 2025-11-18

The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research has granted SEK 47 million for four years to Mistra REES. The aim of the programme is to facilitate the transition by Swedish manufacturing industry to a circular economy. Business and academia collaborate to facilitate the transition by Swedish manufacturing industry to more resource-efficient solutions.Mistra REES, where “REES” is an ac

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mistra-continue-funding-research-circular-economy-transition - 2025-11-18

New research implies that green growth climate mitigation policies are not sufficient for reaching the ambitious targets of the Paris Agreement, to limit global warming to well below 2°C by the end of the century.Green growth policies dominate the climate change mitigation discourse but how much can they contribute to rapid decarbonisation? Jonas Sonnenschein at the IIIEE, Lund University, has ass

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/current-green-growth-policies-are-not-enough-reach-paris-agreement-climate-targets - 2025-11-18

A paper in Nature Climate Change, co-authored by an IIIEE researcher, alumna and student, shows that pledges to phase out coal are so far largely limited to older plants in richer countries. Reaching climate targets requires phasing out coal power without carbon capture and storage, as pledged by the members of Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA). Prof. Aleh Cherp and his co-authors show that these

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/pledges-phase-out-coal-power-are-insufficient-reach-climate-target - 2025-11-18

Kes McCormick was interviewed by Neal Gorenflo at Shareable about the fast-approaching Sharing Cities Summit. Shareable is an award-winning non-profit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation.The interview covered both the background and ambitions of Sharing Cities Sweden and the planning for the Sharing Cities Summit with a focus on connecting the sustainable development goa

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/building-sharing-cities-summit - 2025-11-18

IIIEE researchers have partaken in the development of an interdisciplinary approach for evaluation of policy instruments and research initiatives, focusing on capturing transformative change. The guidance was developed within the research project Transition Governance, which engaged researchers at Lund University and the Finnish Environment Institute between 2016-2019.The report combines interdisc

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-guidance-evaluation-transformative-focus - 2025-11-18

As part of the EIT Raw Materials funded REFER project, IIIEE will be co-hosting an event to raise awareness about critical raw materials in electronics and repair in Lund on International Repair Day. International Repair Day occurs annually on the 3rd Saturday of October to promote the  value and importance of repairing.As part of the REFER project, IIIEE is hosting an event with Repair Café Lund,

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-will-raise-awareness-about-critical-raw-materials-international-repair-day-19th-october - 2025-11-18

27 students from 15 countries! On 22 August, 27 students from 15 countries arrived at the IIIEE!They are the 26th batch of our Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy.Welcome to the IIIEE!

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-batch-26-our-masters-programme-environmental-management-and-policy - 2025-11-18

Professor Nancy Bocken has been awarded the European Research Council’s Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in the 2019 round of awards. She receives 1.5 million euros during the next five years. Nancy Bocken receives the ERC grant for her new project CIRCULAR X. The project will develop a new field of research on experimentation with circular service business models (CSBMs). E

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/professor-nancy-bocken-receives-prestigious-erc-starting-grant - 2025-11-18

On 4 September, Katherine Whalen and Håkan Rodhe from the IIIEE took part in the launch of the C-BOOT coaching programme for aspiring circular entrepreneurs.The programme kicked off in Mechelen in Belgium where 21 circular entrepreneurs gathered to sharpen their case - environmentally and in business terms.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/c-boot-coaching-programme-aspiring-circular-entrepreneurs - 2025-11-18

First output from the Urban Sharing project in Amsterdam During the Spring the research project Urban Sharing and its team visited Amsterdam where they started their first Mobile Research Lab (MRL). The trip included, among others, visits to ShareNL, Rijkswaterstaat, University of Utrecht, University of Twente, city of Amsterdam as well as meetings with representatives of different urban sharing o

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urban-sharing-amsterdam - 2025-11-18

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 Directory provides an entry point to

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/taking-action-urban-nature-innovation-pathways-directory - 2025-11-18

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 students assist organisatio

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/msc-students-iiiee-batch-25-set-challenge - 2025-11-18

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.  

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/founder-karo-sambhav-career-iiiee-alumnus - 2025-11-18

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 industry. The week ends with th

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-week-iiiee-1 - 2025-11-18

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 can achieve in cities, examining how innovatio

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/naturvation-project-meets-lund-discuss-key-findings - 2025-11-18

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 to heat our homes in a sust

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/walking-energy-talking-energy - 2025-11-18

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 practical information on the

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sharing-cities-summit-2019 - 2025-11-18