Published 6 October 2015 On 5 October the REES research programme (financed to a large extent by MISTRA), will have a kick-off in Söderköping, Sweden to start collaborating on Resource-Efficient and Effective Solutions, based on circular economy thinking (REES).Background:Mistra’s Board has decided to invest up to SEK 42 million, over a four-year period, in the REES (Resource-Efficient and Effecti

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/rees-research-programme-kick - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 31 January 2022 Jenny Palm has been appointed to the position of Director and Lena Neij, who has temporarily been managing the institute in 2021, will go back to focusing on research. Jenny holds a role as Professor in Sustainable Urban Governance at the IIIEE since 2017 and will start in her new role February 1. Fredr

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/jenny-palm-new-director-iiiee - 2025-07-15

Published 6 October 2015 Unleashing Urban Innovation! A short film from the GUST project on urban living labs lead by the IIIEE.View the film by clicking here 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/unleashing-urban-innovation-short-film-gust-project - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 2 February 2022 IIIEE researcher Jessika Luth Richter has written a comment article published in Nature Electronics: "A circular economy approach is needed for electric vehicles". She explains that the full life cycle of electric vehicles needs to be considered in order to avoid creating resource issues while trying to

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/circular-economy-approach-needed-electric-vehicles - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 2 February 2022 Every year, the world adds more renewable energy production capacity than the year before. But, looking historically, is this growth enough to achieve our climate targets? According to a recent publication in ‘Nature Energy’, the short answer is “no” – to meet the climate goals requires decades of growt

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-renewable-energy-adoption - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 3 February 2022 The city of Malmö A perspective article published in the Frontiers in Sustainable Cities journal delves into key emerging questions on the mission for 100 climate neutral cities in Europe and approaches for inclusive participation of citizens and stakeholders. The purpose of this perspective article is

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-launching-mission-100-climate-neutral-cities-europe-characteristics-critiques-and - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 16 February 2022 The report analyses what Sweden can learn from other countries in order to increase the number of consumer repairs, support the repair sector, combat planned obsolescence, and stop unsold goods from being destroyed. European countries, regions and municipalities are experimenting with new policies to i

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-national-polices-increasing-consumer-repairs-and-avoiding-destruction-unsold-products - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 17 February 2022 Jenny Palm. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg Jenny is part of the advisory board of Fossil Free Sweden’s strategy for energy efficiency. Fossil Free Sweden is a national initiative to make Sweden the first fossil free welfare nation of the world. The goal is to hand over an energy efficiency strategy to

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/jenny-palm-member-advisory-board-fossil-free-sweden - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 17 February 2022 On 16 & 17 February 2022, Lund University & U21 invited member universities to participate in a two-day online Education Innovation Symposium on the topic Teaching for Sustainability. The symposium included discussions, best practices and much more! Kes McCormick presented on the power and potentials o

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/kes-mccormick-presents-u21-educational-innovation-symposium-teaching-sustainability - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 22 February 2022 Charlotte Leire and Kes McCormick are responsible for the MOOCs produced at the IIIEE. Photo: Jan Olsson IIIEE is taking the lead on open, month-long online courses, known as MOOCs. The investment in MOOCs has been quite a success. In recent years, every sixth student has stated that the online courses

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/moocs-more-popular-during-pandemic - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 28 February 2022 Artificial intelligence - AI - is being applied throughout society to a wide array of sustainability-related challenges, where it can help to effectivize and optimize systems to save both energy and resources. AI can also be used to analyse enormous amounts of data, faster than any human ever could. Ho

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-exploring-role-ai-sustainability - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 1 March 2022 In a newly published article in Energy Policy, researchers from the IIIEE show the potential impacts that social norms can have if they were used to promote low-carbon mobility options. The transport sector is crucially important to limit global warming to 1.5ᵒC above pre-industrial levels. Its management

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/policy-experimentation-what-extent-can-use-social-norms-promote-low-carbon-mobility-options - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 9 March 2022 On 1 March about 60 international colleagues, students, alumni and friends met in front of the IIIEE main entrance to show solidarity with Ukraine and our support for democracy and freedom. The participants took a picture with the Ukrainian flag, said some words of encouragement, shared links for donations

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-shows-solidarity-ukraine - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 10 March 2022 Kes McCormick from the IIIEE moderated a grand seminar at Lund University on the IPCC report “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability“ and, in the light of the recent report from the Swedish National Expert Council for Climate Adaptation. Presentations and discussions focused on the implications in the cont

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/grand-seminar-ipcc-report-climate-change-focus-impacts-adaptation-and-vulnerability - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 11 March 2022 Boost your knowledge, understanding and skills for navigating urban transformations and creating sustainable cities and communities in countries across the world by taking a specialisation on the Coursera platform. This specialisation combines three Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). In this specialisat

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-launches-sustainable-cities-and-communities-specialisation-coursera-platform - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 14 March 2022 ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and the City of Malmö are partnering with the City Futures Academy and the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University to support the capacity building and lifelong learning of participants at the ICLEI World Congre

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lifelong-learning-amplifying-urban-transformation-capacities-new-partnership-iclei-and-city-malmo - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 28 March 2022 Today, more than half of the world’s population live in cities, and by mid-century it is predicted that more than two-thirds of the world’s population will live in urban areas. This sees cities at the forefront of sustainability, needing to meet social needs within our ecological boundaries. An overarchin

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-goals-targets-and-indicators-applying-sustainable-development-goals-cities - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 1 April 2022 IIIEE researchers have contributed to a special issue in the Journal of Cleaner Production, dealing with the role of regulations and public policies as drivers for the Circular Economy. Carl Dalhammar was one of the guest editors of the issue, which also included two article contributions from IIIEE resear

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-contribute-special-issue-regulating-circular-economy-gaps-insights-and-emerging - 2025-07-15

Published 7 October 2015 “We need to close the knowledge gap”, says Andrius Plepys, one of the IIIEE researchers in search of the reasons why energy-innovative lighting is still so rare in Swedish schools and hospitals. New business models and commercial opportunities in lighting:What stops LEDs from hitting the market? Energy efficient lighting as in LED is an essential technique in a sustainable

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-andrius-plepys - 2025-07-15

By li [dot] strandberg [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Li Strandberg) - published 5 April 2022 Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and her father Volodymyr Voitenko meet with Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström and Pro Vice-Chancellor Per Mickwitz. (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Our colleague Yuliya Voytenko Palgan is one of the driving spirits at the University who are doing everything they can to help Ukraine and the people

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/yuliya-fighting-ukraine - 2025-07-15