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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 - 2025-12-17

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

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researcher-luis-mundaca-recognized-sseess-global-environmental-change-gec-researcher - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/marint-centrum-i-simrishamn-och-lunds-universitet-tilldelas-pengar-projekt-om-framtidens-fiskehamn - 2025-12-17

Frans Libertson, doctoral student at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, has published a new report on user perspectives on smart charging. Electric vehicles will play a significant role in decarbonizing the transport sector. However, if not coordinated, the increase in electricity use threatens to overload the energy system. The charging of the vehicles must theref

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/flexibility-and-control-what-do-users-think-smart-charging - 2025-12-17

MESPOM is a joint master degree in environmental sciences, policy and management and lasts for 22 months. The fall and winter terms of the first year are hosted by Central European University (CEU, Vienna). The spring term is hosted by the University of the Aegean (Lesvos, Greece). In the summer, students take internships supervised by MESPOM faculty. During the fall term of the second year, stude

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mespom-masters-programme-2022-2024-open-applications - 2025-12-17

År 2015 brändes 74 000 ton textilier i Sverige (både hemtextilier och kläder) och bara 3 000 ton återanvändes genom andrahandsförsäljning. Trots att Naturvårdsverket har uppskattat att 60 procent av de textilier som bränns är i tillräckligt bra skick för att kunna återanvändas. Därför måste vi minska CO2-utsläpp genom att tillfredsställa behovet av inredning på ett sätt som inte kräver nyproduktio

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/debattartikel-i-aftonbladet-vara-prylar-maste-ga-att-reparera-och-aterbruka - 2025-12-17

In a new article Madeleine Wahlund and Jenny Palm have reviewed earlier research on citizen participation and energy citizenship. The concepts are tightly connected to the debate on energy transition, and the need for a decentralized energy system, based on renewable energy and increased local energy ownership. The two concepts exist in parallel and are sometimes used as synonyms and sometimes wit

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/role-energy-democracy-and-energy-citizenship-participatory-energy-transitions - 2025-12-17

Application for studies 2022-2024 is now open. The IIIEE provides graduate education that equips students with the knowledge, skills and personal qualities needed to become agents of change and future leaders who are capable of advancing sustainable solutions. Our Master's programme in Environmental Policy and Management (EMP), educates professionals committed to and capable of solving global sust

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/apply-our-masters-programmes - 2025-12-17

On 26 September 2015, Mikael Backman at the IIIEE, Director of the Swedish-Polish Sustainable Energy Platform, was celebrating the Zabrze days in company with the Mayor of Lund, Lennart Prytz. The Platform is supporting  Zabrze, "Environmental Twin City of Lund", in its transition towards sustainability, presently including a Biogas production system from waste, for demonstration purposes. 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/swedish-polish-sustainable-energy-platform-was-celebrating-zabrze-days - 2025-12-17

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 Effective Solutions, based on ci

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/rees-research-programme-kick - 2025-12-17

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. Fredrik Andersson, Chairman of the IIIEE board and Professor at Lund University School of Economics a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/jenny-palm-new-director-iiiee - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 achieve the necessary climate goals. She explains that the transition to electric vehicles is l

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/circular-economy-approach-needed-electric-vehicles - 2025-12-17

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 growth in renewables at rates higher than those observed historically in most countries. In this epis

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-renewable-energy-adoption - 2025-12-17

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 to critically explore the launch of the mission for 100 climate neutral cities in Europe. An overview of the missi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-launching-mission-100-climate-neutral-cities-europe-characteristics-critiques-and - 2025-12-17

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 increase consumer repairs and destruction of unsold products. A new popular science report discuss

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-national-polices-increasing-consumer-repairs-and-avoiding-destruction-unsold-products - 2025-12-17

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 the new government in autumn 2022. Read more about Fossil Free Sweden on their website (link will open in a new window.) Fossil Free Sweden

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/jenny-palm-member-advisory-board-fossil-free-sweden - 2025-12-17

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 of Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs through the example of the City Futures Academy – an onlin

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/kes-mccormick-presents-u21-educational-innovation-symposium-teaching-sustainability - 2025-12-17