Read about our research, engagement and researchers at COP27, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, hosted by Egypt in Sharm El Sheikh. It is held between 6-18 November. Reports launched at COP27 The land Gap report  Countries’ climate pledges are dangerously over reliant on inequitable and unsustainable land-based measures to capture and store carbon. This is stated in a new study, c

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-engagement-during-cop27 - 2025-08-21

The 10 New Insights in Climate Science presents key insights from the latest climate change-related research this year and responds to clear calls for policy guidance during this climate-critical decade. The authors emphasize and unpack the complex interactions between climate change and other drivers of risk, such as conflicts, pandemics, food crises and underlying development challenges in the r

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-report-10-new-insights-climate-science - 2025-08-21

LUCSUS PhD students, Fabiola Espinoza Córdova and Alicia N’Guetta, share their insights from their experience at COP27. The COP27 UN Climate Change Conference came to an end on 20 November. Since then, researchers have analysed the outcomes, highlighting both successes and failures.  LUCSUS PhD students Fabiola Espinoza Córdova and Alicia N’Guetta were both at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt to ob

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflections-cop27-fabiola-espinoza-cordova-and-alicia-nguetta - 2025-08-21

It is a big problem that culture and education are singled out as obstacles by foresters who want to use continuous cover forestry methods, according to the researchers. It shows how norms impact sustainable transitions. Photo: Torsten Krause. For decades, the Swedish forest have been intensely managed through clear-cutting and tree planting to maximize wood production. This type of management has

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/norms-make-transition-forestry-without-major-clear-cutting-difficult - 2025-08-21

In his Phd-project, Carlos Velez wants to collaborate with local communities in strengthening their livelihoods, and when doing so, expand the general knowledge of them to Colombian and worldwide society. What do you explore in your PhD-project?  I explore the role that Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITK) plays in the regulation of Wildlife consumption in the Colombian Amazon. This is quite int

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-carlos-velez-explores-role-indigenous-traditional-knowledge-relation-wildlife - 2025-08-21

Another decade of deforestation means more biodiversity lost, greenhouse gas emissions and forest degradation, fragmentation and conversion to other land-uses. Photo: Unsplash Just a month after the UN climate summit in Egypt, the leaders of the world meet again, at COP15 in Montreal, to address another acute crisis facing humanity – the loss of biodiversity. Torsten Krause is a senior lecturer in

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-un-conference-cop15 - 2025-08-21

The organisation, Aurora, and their many supporters, wound their way in demonstration through central Stockholm from the Swedish parliament buildings to Stockholm District Court to waves of encouragement from bystanders and a sizable media contingent. On 25 November, after two years of intense legal preparations, the youth organsation Aurora, submitted a litigation against the Swedish state for it

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/aurora-climate-litigation - 2025-08-21

Mine Islar, senior lecturer at LUCSUS, reflects that the new Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework is more ambitious than previous frameworks, and has aims to address direct and indirect drivers of biodiversity more explicitly. Photo: Pixabay.  The new Global Biodiversity Framework is seen as an important step towards addressing the nature crisis, not least the ambitious goal to restore, protect

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/can-new-post-2020-global-biodiversity-framework-stop-biodiversity-loss-mine-islar-comments-outcomes - 2025-08-21

LUCSUS PhD student Ronald Byaruhanga studies how collective action through farmer groups can be used as a vehicle for food sovereignty in Uganda. In this short interview he shares his goals and research interests. What will you investigate in your research? My PhD is part of a larger project on “Mobilising Farmer Organisations for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa”. The pr

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/meet-our-phd-student-ronald-byaruhanga - 2025-08-21

Come work at LUCSUS! We are delighted to announce two new PhD positions and one post-doctoral fellow position in Sustainability Science! They are under research projects examining the intersection of climate and biodiversity. Research project: Environmental Human Rights Defenders – Change Agents at the Crossroads of Climate change, Biodiversity and Cultural Conservation   1 PhD position in Sustain

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-positions-lucsus-two-phd-positions-and-one-post-doc-position-under-projects-intersection-climate - 2025-08-21

Torsten Krause is leading a newly started research project which will shed light on the various moral and legal dilemmas that can arise in the fight to defend and protect nature and human rights. Photo: Pixabay. In mid-January, protesters and police clashed in the village of Lützerath in Germany after the village was occupied for a long time in an attempt to prevent the extension of a large open-p

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/who-are-environmental-human-rights-defenders-new-research-project-lucsus - 2025-08-21

One of the three paintings of agroecological futures, this one representing future pastoralism. Mvomero District, Morogoro Region, March 2022. A picture says more than a thousand words. LUCSUS postdoctoral researcher, Emma Johansson, uses art as a research method to create impacts beyond academia among farmers, pastoralists, organisations and policy makers in Tanzania and Sweden. An artist herself

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-creating-impact-through-art - 2025-08-21

The recent extreme wildfires in Turkey show us that the current last-minute fire suppression policies are not only costly for the government, but also insufficient to respond to disastrous, extreme wildfires. Heatwaves and dry summer seasons have turned the Mediterranean basin into a global wildfire hotspot. In the summers of 2021 and 2022, wildfires raged across all of the Mediterranean, with dev

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/beyond-flames-effects-wildfires-mediterranean-turkey - 2025-08-21

Climate risks are cross-boundary, cross-scale, and multi-dimensional, and how we adapt to these risks requires an understanding of who and what is vulnerable, as well as who has the capability to adapt, notes researcher Murray Scown. A new research project led by LUCSUS is exploring how power and politics intersects with climate risk and adaptation at different scales. The aim is to contribute to

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-lucsus-research-project-seeks-shed-light-power-dynamics-climate-change-adaptation - 2025-08-21

The Aurora case is an example of a climate lawsuit playing out both within and beyond the courtroom. Their work aims not only to influence climate policy in Sweden, but also to raise public awareness according to Salvatore Paolo De Rosa. 2023 is set to be a watershed year for climate litigation cases globally. Also in Sweden, where the youth organisation Aurora is suing the Swedish state for insuf

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/climate-litigation-cases-explained-what-their-purpose-and-what-their-impact-within-and-outside - 2025-08-21

Join LUCSUS at this year's Sustainability Week. We are organising and participating in events on climate litigation, science and activism, and the role of the arts in the climate crisis. Sustainability week is an annual event in Lund organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. The week serves as a platform for bringing together ideas, for cross-disciplinary collaboration

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/join-lucsus-sustainability-week-17-22-april - 2025-08-21

By relying on large scale carbon dioxide removal to compensate for residual emissions there is a risk that mitigation efforts will slow down – making it even more difficult to limit global warming to 1,5°C, says Wim Carton. A review of 50 countries' long term climate strategies to reach net zero emissions shows that countries calculate their residual emissions differently, and that current climate

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/countries-climate-strategies-include-large-levels-residual-emissions-and-rely-unsustainable-carbon - 2025-08-21

Lennart Olsson believes that it was the project's visionary approach that convinced the ERC panel, and that the research can pave the way for a new agricultural revolution. The European Research Council's (ERC) mission is to promote research of the highest quality through extensive and long-term funding. The grants are applied for in international competition with scientific excellence as the only

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/professor-lennart-olsson-awarded-prestigious-erc-advanced-grant-visionary-research-perennials - 2025-08-21

LUCSUS’ researcher Torsten Krause reflects on why the study about ocean acidification - of which he is a co-author - was selected to feature in an article in Science for Environment Policy.Science for Environment Policy is a new service published by the European Commission's Environment Directorate-General, and is sent out to over 20,000 policymakers, academics and business people across Europe to

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-research-feature-science-environment-policy - 2025-08-21

On 9 May, we will have the honour to have the Right Livelihood Award Laureate, Marthe Wandou, joining us for a dialogue on human rights education, the environment, and the prevention of violence against children. Jurist Marthe Wandou is a Cameroonian gender and peace activist who has worked to prevent and fight sexual violence against children, particularly girls, as well as care for survivors of

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/right-livelihood-award-laureate-marthe-wandou-visits-lucsus - 2025-08-21