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https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/september-issue-iiiee-newsletter-out-now - 2025-10-25
In this new article published in Energy Research & Social Science, the authors offer a definition of the concept of new clean energy communities, discuss their potential for wider dissemination and identify four factors that contribute to the current mismatch between ambitions and reality in energy community development. Building on these factors, the authors present a broader framework inspired b
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-clean-energy-communities-polycentric-settings-four-avenues-future-research - 2025-10-25
Join the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), with the aim to find pathways towards accelerating the transitions to climate-neutral and resource-efficient economies. We are looking for a highly qualified candidate to lead, develop and coordinate this interdisciplinary research and education institution with great ambitions. Read more about the position. Applicati
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/we-are-now-recruiting-director-iiiee - 2025-10-25
Article published on the Lund University website: 29/09/2015:Three years ago Steven Curtis won the first prize in Lund University’s ” Challenge Your Perspectives” scholarship competition for American students. Sweden’s ambassador to the USA, Jonas Hafström, handed him the diploma in Washington DC. On 25 September 2015 Steven once again received a diploma from the hands of Jonas Hafström – this tim
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/scholarship-winner-steven-curtis-graduates-iiiee-and-closes-circle - 2025-10-25
The production of renewable energy is increasing every year. But after analysing the growth rates of wind and solar power in 60 countries, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and Lund University in Sweden and Central European University in Vienna, Austria, conclude that virtually no country is moving sufficiently fast to avoid global warming of 1.5°C or even 2°C. Aleh Cherp, Professor
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/press-release-expansion-wind-and-solar-power-too-slow-stop-climate-change - 2025-10-25
Den sista augusti 2021 avslutades det nationella programmet Sharing Cities Sweden. Programmet har utgjort en viktig del av Viable Cities - det strategiska innovationsprogrammet för smarta och hållbara städer. Mycket fokus har legat på städers möjligheter att främja delning av saker, tjänster, platser och mobilitet. Vi ser att städer kan göra stora insatser för att främja en hållbar konsumtion, där
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/svenska-stader-leder-delningsekonomins-framfart-en-aktiv-delningskultur-driver-pa - 2025-10-25
In this new article published in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, we collaborate with a team of researchers from around the world to critically review the contributions, advances and challenges related to research on energy efficiency. Labelled as the ‘first fuel’ for economic development, energy efficiency has become more prominent than ever in policy and scientific communities wor
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/what-have-we-learnt-after-four-decades-research-energy-efficiency - 2025-10-25
Reaching the 1.5°C climate target requires a drastic decline in the use of fossil fuels, especially coal in Asia and OECD. Has such decline ever happed in the past? At the first glance, the answer is ‘no’. Globally, new energy and technologies have always been added on top of the old ones (so that past ‘energy transitions’ are sometimes humorously called ‘energy additions’!) But a new research co-
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/historical-lessons-getting-rid-fossil-fuels - 2025-10-25
Alltför ofta glöms kommunerna centrala roll bort i klimatdebatten. Det är på den lokala nivån många viktiga beslut fattas med direkt påverkan på medborgare, civilsamhälle och näringslivets klimatarbete. Lunds kommun har inom ramen för Miljömålsprogrammet LundaEko satt upp ambitiösa klimatmål. Parallellt har kommunen skrivit under ett klimatkontrakt där den åtar sig att bli klimatneutral till 2030.
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/debattartikel-om-lunds-klimatarbete-i-skanska-dagbladet - 2025-10-25
The IIIEE is offering a new PhD position starting on 1 January 2016.Final application date is 18 October 2015.Contact person for this position is Professor Lena Neij, Director at the IIIEE:Telephone: +46 46 222 02 22Email: lena [dot] neij [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (lena[dot]neij[at]iiiee[dot]lu[dot]se )Read more about this position here
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-phd-position-iiiee - 2025-10-25
The Energy Blog was recently launched and is a space to discuss energy, its role in our societies and how it can be transformed. The aim is to contribute with innovative ways to accomplish a transformation to a low-carbon society and a more sustainable and affordable energy system. Behind the blog you find a team of PhD students, researchers and professors. They present findings from their work wi
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/follow-iiiee-energy-blog - 2025-10-25
In a newly published article in Global Environmental Change, we collaborate with colleagues from LUCSUS and Karolinska Institute to critically review the scientific knowledge linking internal (‘individual’) and external (‘system’) transformations. A roadmap for advancing research, policy and practice is proposed. Much of the debate on and policy approaches for sustainability and climate change hav
Throughout autumn 2021, from late September to mid-December, Lund University will host 'Subject Area Weeks'. During one week at a time, we will put the spotlight on one of our ten subject areas so that you can learn more about studies in that field and also interact with programme staff and current students from that subject area during webinars. If you are interested in Environment and Sustainabi
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/subject-area-week-environment-and-sustainability - 2025-10-25
IIIEE researchers Carl Dalhammar, Jessika Luth Richter and Mariana Lopez Davila were invited to present their research at the “Fixing for Future” symposium on repair in Oslo November 18-19. The symposium explored the complexities surrounding product repair in a Nordic context. Speakers and participants from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, from academia, industry, and other fields of practice
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-presented-fixing-future-oslo - 2025-10-25
Degrowth is a critique of infinite economic growth, recognising continued consumption of scarce resources will inevitably result in exhausting them completely. In this episode, we present the challenges of living within an economic system governed by infinite growth on a planet with finite resources. We discuss key vocabulary to understand degrowth, and its three goals: 1) Reduce environmental imp
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-degrowth-challenging-infinite-growth-finite-world - 2025-10-25
When scooters replace travels with car or taxi they contribute to a reduced climate impact. But if they replace walking and biking they will have a bigger impact. Thus the climate impact of scooters depends on how they are being used. New debate article in Sydsvenskan by PhD students Ana Maria Arbalaez Velez and Frans Libertson. Read the article (in Swedish): https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2021-12-04/
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/electric-scooters-not-sustainable-default - 2025-10-25
Associate professor, Luis Mundaca, at the IIIEE is also a GEC (Global Environmental Change) researcher. He received a planning grant from the SSEESS (Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences) in 2015 to target the SDSN sustainable development challenges with relevance to GEC.Read an interview with Luis Mundaca here
Swedish Journal "Aktuell Hållbarhet" has listed young talents that in one way or another already have made an imprint in the area of sustainability. The list contains activists, lawyers, researchers, engineers and others. Congratulations, Steven! Where does your engagement come from and what made you choose a career in sustainability? Thanks! I am really honoured to be recognised, and included amo
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/steven-curtis-listed-one-33-most-influential-sustainability-profiles-under-33-sweden - 2025-10-25
There is a fast-growing trend to design smart electronics with custom-sized batteries that are embedded into devices with glue and solder. As a result, repairing, reusing, repurposing, and recycling batteries and the devices they power has become increasingly difficult and sometimes simply impossible. The EU battery regulation can address these issues and improve how we produce and consume batteri
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/non-replaceable-batteries-bad-environment-and-consumers - 2025-10-25
När Formas nyligen meddelade vilka ansökningar som beviljats medel i den nya nationella forskningsutlysningen Blå innovation, stod det klart att två av de tjugo beviljade projekten landar i forsknings- och innovationsmiljön på Marint centrum i Simrishamn. Lunds universitet, Österlen VA och Simrishamns kommun kommer tillsammans kartlägga hur forskning, innovationer och näringslivsutveckling kan ska
