Published 11 April 2017 A spatio-temporal historical dataset at micro-level for geocoded individuals in five Swedish parishes, 1813–1914, has been created by Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson and Lars Harrie. The publication can be found at: http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201746, and author information is available at: Finn Hedefalk, Patrick Svensson and Lars Harrie.The datasets provide a detai

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Published 4 May 2017 Professor Torben R. Christensen has contributed as lead author to a major international assessment of the status of Arctic climate and environment, "Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic" (SWIPA). The authors were interviewed for a short film now available. The SWIPA report was released on 25th April 2017 at a conference in Washington "Bringing knowledge to action" org

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/torben-r-christensen-featured-short-film-about-arctic-climate-and-environment - 2025-07-07

By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 22 May 2017 EASAC has issued a new report on the multifunctional role of forests. Among other things, the report debunks the idea about the climate neutrality of bioenergy. EASAC - European Academies 'Science Advisory Council - has published a new report dealing with the multifunctional role of forests, focusing o

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By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 20 June 2017 By Chrisrosenk (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Hakim Abdi, who recently defended his PhD thesis at the department, has published a popular science article on The Conversation website. Hakim Abdi recently finished his PhD studies the depa

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/chad-country-most-vulnerable-climate-change-heres-why - 2025-07-07

Published 6 July 2017 Jörgen Olofsson, Markku Rummukainen and Minchao Wu were recently featured or cited in various media. Researcher interviewed about strategies to achieve climate targetsResearcher Jörgen Olofsson, was interviewed in the daily Dagens ETC about a new book containing 100 strategies to achieve climate targets by 2050. “I’ve only skimmed through the list, but I see that, for example

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By ricardo [dot] guillen [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Ricardo Guillén) - published 28 August 2017 Anders Lindroth Anders Lindroth was interviewed by the magazine Dagens ETC about the climate impact of forests, and about why the amount of carbon in the atmosphere is increasing. Anders Lindroth, Professor Emeritus at the Department, was recently interviewed by Dagens ETC. In one article about abou

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Published 20 September 2017 Photo: Patrik Vestin Swedish forests are important carbon sinks today, despite emissions from deforestration. The choice of management is paramount for the impacts on climate change and some of the concepts used in the climate discussion today needs to be thought over and based on research. This is the essense of an article published by Professor Anders Lindroth and Pro

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/dn-debatt-clear-cutting-forests-generate-large-greenhouse-gas-emissions - 2025-07-07

By jessika [dot] sellergren [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 1 April 2022 “Zero emissions are what counts if we are going to be able to live up to the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming,” says Lars J. Nilsson. Photo: Unsplash. In connection with a new report on measures to mitigate climate change, researchers at Lund University in Sweden see some hopeful sig

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/un-climate-report-april-4th-what-matters-now-zero-emissions - 2025-07-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 21 April 2022 Henrik Smith. Photo: Johan Persson. The Swedish Government has today appointed Henrik Smith, professor in animal ecology at Lund University, as a new member of the Climate Policy Council. Henrik Smith works at the Center for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) and the Department of Biology in Lu

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/henrik-smith-new-member-swedish-climate-policy-council - 2025-07-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 4 May 2022 The BIOPATH consortium consists of a carefully composed team of research specialists in sustainable finance and biodiversity as well as influential partners from industry, the financial system and public authorities. The research programme ”Pathways towards an efficient alignment of the financial syste

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/50-millions-research-about-finance-and-biodiversity - 2025-07-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 4 May 2022 The sympsoium will focus on climate change in a Swedish context. What is happening to the climate and what role does climate research play in society? The strategic research areas MERGE and BECC, the Bolin Centre for Climate Research and SMHI are together arranging a climate symposium in Norrköping on

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/national-symposium-norrkoping-focuses-climate-research - 2025-07-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 5 July 2022 In a new report IPBES consider what values that can be put on nature, and what methods exist to calculate such a values. Photo: Istock. Is it possible to put a value on nature and the vital ecosystem services it provides for us? What are the pros and cons of different valuation models? These are the k

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/how-nature-be-valued-new-report-way-ipbes - 2025-07-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 6 July 2022 A Vice-Chancellor’s decision has been taken on the profile area ClimBioSis, which involves several CEC researchers. Photo: Kenneth Ruona. A Vice-Chancellor’s decision has been taken on five profile areas for Lund University. One of the areas is ClimBioSis, which involves several CEC researchers. Thirt

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-says-yes-climbiosis-profile-area - 2025-07-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 29 September 2022 Photo: Hans Ott/Unsplash. New data by the research infrastructure ICOS confirms that natural carbon sinks such as the ocean and forests are not stable. Climate change makes these sinks more vulnerable, in some cases even turning them into carbon emitters. This compromises current climate targets

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-change-makes-carbon-sinks-more-vulnerable - 2025-07-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 29 September 2022 Urban forests have less bird diversity compared to forests in the countryside – even if the forest areas are of the same quality. Photo: Tariq Sulemani/Istockphoto. A new study led by Lund University in Sweden shows that cities negatively affect the diversity of birds. There are significantly fe

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/less-bird-diversity-city-forests - 2025-07-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 3 October 2022 Adrian Gustafson doing fieldwork in the Arctic. Photo: Private. Effects of a warmer Arctic are not only negative for the climate, according to a new thesis from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University, Sweden. Modelling showed that moving the tree line upwards could incr

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/complex-consequences-warmer-arctic - 2025-07-07

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 7 November 2022 The clear-cutting shown from above. Please observe that the clar-cut is shown at a higher speed in the video than in reality. Video: ICOS Norunda. The machines have started rolling in at Norunda and are cutting down trees, one by one. Norunda is Sweden’s oldest measuring station for greenhouse gases and

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/clear-cut-forest-provides-essential-information-climate-research - 2025-07-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 3 November 2022 Markku Rummukainen. Photo: Kennet Ruona The UN’s annual climate change conference takes place this year in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Over the course of two weeks, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to discuss how to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and contribute to th

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-conference-cop27-topics-agenda - 2025-07-07

By jessika [dot] sellergren [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 10 November 2022 Coastal engineer Caroline Hallin teaches doctoral students from the interdisciplinary ClimBEco Graduate Research School at Knäbäckshusen in Skåne, Sweden. Photo: Sara Håkansson The coast is changing. The sea is encroaching further inland, and the shoreline of childhood memory no longer looks th

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/interdisciplinary-research-school-skanes-beaches - 2025-07-07

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 30 November 2022 Just over two weeks after the climate summit in Egypt, the leaders of the world’s countries are meeting again, this time to address another acute crisis facing humanity – the loss of biodiversity. The issue is less well-known than the climate crisis and no framework corresponding to the Paris agr

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/it-time-put-biodiversity-agenda-five-lund-researchers-challenges-cop15 - 2025-07-07