Photo: Mostphotos The new UN climate report shows that the zero emissions goal for 2050 is achievable. However, it will require major changes in all sectors – not least in industry, which currently accounts for a large proportion of global emissions. The researchers identified several sustainable paths forward, but some sectors – above all in plastics and chemicals – are still searching for potent

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/climate-researcher-there-are-sustainable-paths-forward-basic-material-sector - 2025-09-03

When alumnus Marlow Guttmann graduated from the master's degree programme in Entrepreneurship and Innovation in 2023 he had his eyes set on a career in consulting in Hamburg. In our interview, you will learn about Marlow's journey of landing his first job after graduation, the impact of the Leapfrog scholarship and the rewarding experience of working on a sustainable mobility project. Hi Marlow! Y

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/marlow-guttmann-alumnus-msc-entrepreneurship-and-innovation-2023 - 2025-09-03

Nicaragua after the deadly hurricane ETA in 2020 (Photo: Delmer Membreno / EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid) The UNFCCC climate meeting COP27 is currently taking place in Egypt. With evidence growing that green house gas emissions are making extreme events occur more frequently, and with greater intensity, loss and damage has emerged as one of the most important topics at the meeting. Deve

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cop27-climate-compensation-poorer-countries-must-top-agenda - 2025-09-03

Art and culture can touch us on new levels that provide new perspectives and new issues. Photo: iStockphoto Art and culture have the capacity to make us aware of our relationship to ourselves and others, our world and our time. Using existential sustainability as an umbrella term, we can investigate new angles and open the way for new collaborations, according to Anna Lyrevik, senior adviser to th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/art-and-culture-bring-us-existential-awareness - 2025-09-03

Claus-Christian Eckhardt, the Director of the School of Industrial Design is relieved. Photo: Erik Andersson A record donation of SEK 350 million from the IKEA Foundation has secured the future of the School of Industrial Design at Lund University. It is not the first time that the school has received a major donation from IKEA. It all started at a meeting over a lot of coffee and snuff between In

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/shared-vision-about-good-design-everyone-behind-huge-donations - 2025-09-03

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/interview-iiiee-researcher-nora-smedby - 2025-09-03

Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) reached the Triple Crown status in 2021. Now, both EQUIS (in May) and AMBA (in August) issued their reaccreditations for another five years, confirming the quality of the School. Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) has now received its reaccreditation through both the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and T

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/still-top-lusem-reaffirms-its-triple-crown-status - 2025-09-03

Sebastian Palmqvist. The Bundy Academy’s 2022 major prize amounting to SEK 3 million is awarded to Sebastian Palmqvist, Associate Professor of Clinical Memory Research at Lund University and Senior Physician at the Memory Clinic at Skåne University Hospital, for his research on improved diagnostics of Alzheimer’s disease. RationaleSebastian Palmqvist has published a large number of research papers

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/awardees-2022-bundy-academy-major-prize - 2025-09-03

Nanotubes act like a Velcro strip to which the blood stem cell sticks. Photo: Martin Hjort. Stem cells from umbilical cords in Skåne are improved with nanotubes. By cross-pollinating nanotechnology with stem cell biology, researchers are creating gentle methods to ensure that more cells perform better. Blood stem cells are altered without showing that they have been modified. “If you are intereste

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kind-methods-mean-happy-cells - 2025-09-03

Previous forest fires in the Amazon. Photo: markhillary/flickr. The official figures for forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon in August 2020 show a slight decrease from last year. But researchers at the Brazil's Space Research Institute, Inpe, warn that data may need to be corrected so much that they instead reveal the worst fires in a decade. Torsten Krause, researcher in forest hunting, deforest

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researcher-torsten-krause-comments-fires-brazilian-amazon-august-2020 - 2025-09-03

The project can contribute towards making the respective value chains more transparent, in terms of actors and governance structures, as well as documenting justice aspects say Torsten Krause and Barbara Schröter. Photo: Torsten Krause. A new collaborative research project led by researchers Torsten Krause and Barbara Schröter will investigate the global value chains of cattle (meat / leather), go

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/global-value-chains-meat-gold-tin-and-palm-oil-spotlight-new-research-project - 2025-09-03

The UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) global assessment on nature highlights that one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. Dr. Mine Islar, one of the lead athors of the report, and senior lecturer and researcher at Lund University, explains the significance of the report’s findings. Why is this report importa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lead-author-ipbes-global-assessment-loss-biodiversity-crucial-climate-change - 2025-09-03

Mikkel Brygdegaard, Nancy Bocken, Per Augustsson and Andreas Ehn Ultrasound that detects rare cells in a drop of blood. Business models for a circular economy. Laser technology that can film at almost the speed of light, and another that can map insects from several kilometres away. Four promising researchers from Lund University have been awarded starting grants from the European Research Council

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-lund-university-researchers-awarded-erc-starting-grants - 2025-09-03

Albert Salehi (Photo: Sara Liedholm) By blocking a protein, VDAC1, in the insulin-producing beta cells, it is possible to restore their normal function in case of type 2 diabetes. In preclinical experiments, the researchers behind a new study have also shown that it is possible to prevent the development of the disease. The findings are published in the scientific journal Cell Metabolism. The rese

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-discovery-restores-insulin-cell-function-type-2-diabetes - 2025-09-03

The researches examining one part of the flipper at Lund University. Courtesy of Katrin Sachs. Investigation of a metre-long front flipper, uniquely preserved with fossilized soft tissues, has revealed that the giant ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus was equipped with flow control devices that likely served to suppress self-generated noise when foraging in dimly lit pelagic environments about 183 milli

https://www.science.lu.se/article/ancient-giant-marine-reptile-relied-stealth-while-hunting-darkness - 2025-09-03

Using harmless viruses to insert genes that produce healthy, healing substances into the brain... transplanting cells, possibly from the patient’s own skin... or, most sci-fi of all, controlling special treated nerve cells with light signals in the brain. These are three different paths to a possible treatment for epilepsy that are being tested by a research group in Lund. To help them, the resear

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-paths-treatment-epilepsy - 2025-09-03

This autumn she was awarded SEK 22 million in ERC grants for her Alzheimer’s research. In addition, she is a member of the Nobel Prize committee for chemistry, she has written children’s books, won the veterans’ European Championship in orienteering and is director of Humlegården, a day centre for people with autism. Meet Professor of Chemistry Sara Snogerup Linse. Sara Snogerup Linse has many iro

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/multi-tasking-top - 2025-09-03

Finding your way and navigating around cities is not always easy. New digital maps that have a better overview can help you move more smoothly from point A to point B. Many of us have digital maps at our fingertips in our smartphones, but these maps are not adapted to guide us when walking or finding our way in new environments, for example, as tourists in an unfamiliar big city. Creating such map

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/digital-maps-tomorrow-improve-how-we-find-our-way - 2025-09-03

In the middle of October, the first project partner meeting was held in Helsingborg. The project is about shared and sustainable mobility in new housing developments, and was hosted by Lund University, Campus Helsingborg and the City of Helsingborg. The goal of the project is to create innovative conditions for new residential areas with the preservation of green spaces that enables valuable natur

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/reduced-number-parking-spaces-favour-green-meeting-places-new-eu-project - 2025-09-03

The common reed is considered a weed, but in the farmed landscape it can benefit biodiversity as its seeds become food for insects and its pollen is a mummy for some pollinators. Here it grows beautifully in a spring barley field. One of the world's greatest challenges is to feed the world's population in a sustainable way. Organic farming is one option, but the downside is that it produces lower

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/organic-farms-potential-higher-yields - 2025-09-03