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School students are right to demand more ambitious climate policies on 15 March. The scientific facts are entirely on their side. As researchers working on climate change we support the student movement and share our insights and research-based advice for local and global policymakers. For the past months, school students around the world have taken to the streets to call for increased climate amb

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-supports-ongoing-climate-strikes - 2025-10-25

LUCSUS is part of the annual Sustainability Week in Lund, 8-13 April. This year's theme "Transforming our world" focuses on the global goals and agenda 2030. LUCSUS will participate in, and host, several events about sustainable transformations at different levels. 8 AprilOpening  and guided tour of the exhibition Carbon Ruins. ‘Carbon Ruins’ aims to transport the visitor into a future where trans

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-sustainability-week - 2025-10-25

In this short interview, LUCSUS researcher Diego Galafassi talks on sustainability challenges, his previous research, and his recent article about climate art. What do you do at LUCSUS?I’m a post-doctoral researcher, co-PI of the project Arts4SDGs, which explores the role that arts and arts-based approaches to knowledge co-creation might play in realizing the SDGs.What sustainability challenge do

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-diego-galafassi-works-art-sdgs - 2025-10-25

At least a third of the glaciers in the Himalayan range could melt due to climate change. This will have severe consequences for almost 2 billion people, including the village communities in Nepal, since the glaciers are an important water and energy source. Researcher Mine Islar is examining the future of renewable energy through micro-hydro power in Nepal by looking at collective action to find

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-are-communities-nepal-managing-locally-produced-renewable-energy-age-climate-change - 2025-10-25

This year’s Association of American Geographers’ conference got me thinking about maps. I’ve been to a fair few geography conferences but, funny enough, have never really come across very many maps. Or, rather, have given them very little thought. This year, wherever I turned there they were. And they were truly, deeply, mind-bogglingly fascinating. I’d like to share with you some of the maps and

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/blog-post-reflections-years-association-american-geographers-conference-maja-essebo - 2025-10-25

George Neville works as a post-doctoral researcher within the Misty project, with a special focus on migration and the SDGs. In this interview, he tells us about what sustainability challenge he finds most interesting, what drives him as a researcher, and about what he did before he came to LUCSUS. What do you do at LUCSUS?I have just begun my postdoctoral research here at LUCSUS, working within t

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-george-neville-researches-migration-transformation-and-sustainability - 2025-10-25

In October, LUCSUS will host a conference on Loss and Damage (L&D) from climate change. Discussions to advance research on L&D are urgently needed, says LUCSUS Director Emily Boyd, since many challenges remain for the scientific and policy community on how L&D should be conceptualised, how best to measure, quantify and predict future L&D, and what governance arrangements are most appropriate.  – W

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/dates-set-conference-loss-and-damage-ld-will-be-explored-through-five-interrelated-lenses - 2025-10-25

2018 was a time of change, for sustainability sciences, wider society, as well as within LUCSUS itself. In our annual report, we share insights into our developments and contributions to sustainability science. The report highlights our research, education and capacity building work during 2018.Within LUCSUS, we focused on advancing research within four interrelated themes, which cover land use an

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-annual-report-2018 - 2025-10-25

There is an urgent need for agriculture to drastically reduce its negative environmental impacts, while at the same time responding to increasing demand and adapting to a changing climate. For this to be possible, radical change in how we grow our major staple crops is essential. From the 6th through the 10th of May, about 90 specially invited researchers from around the world will meet in Lund to

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/future-agriculture-perennial - 2025-10-25

The UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) global assessment on nature highlights that 1 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 LUCSUS, explains the significance of the report’s findings, which was released today, 6th May 201

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/mine-islar-comments-ipbes-global-assessment-loss-biodiversity-crucial-climate-change - 2025-10-25

The loss of animals, often due to unregulated or illegal hunting, has consequences for the carbon storage capacity of forests, yet this link is rarely mentioned in high-level climate policy discussions, according to a new study from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies and the University of Copenhagen. Many wildlife species play a key role in dispersing the seeds of tropical trees, pa

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/hunting-jeopardizes-forest-carbon-storage-yet-overlooked-climate-mitigation-efforts - 2025-10-25

"We are seeing an increase in the intensity of extreme climate events, as well as growing inequality.  There is an urgency to look at the intersections between climate change and parameters such as class, gender, ethnicity and soco-economic background", says Director Emily Boyd. She is leading the four yearlong project, Recasting the disproportionate impacts of climate change extremes, DICE. It lo

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/project-dice-linking-climate-change-and-extreme-events-inequality - 2025-10-25

On May 15, LUCSUS successfully kicked off our new mentorship programme for researchers. The purpose of the program is to offer leadership development to selected researchers of the strategic research area Sustainable Development, and to boost career development within academia. Gender, diversity and intersectionality are focus areas of the program. The target group is postdocs and early or mid-car

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-launches-new-mentorship-programme-researchers - 2025-10-25

From despair to transformation: evidence-backed ways to think and act on the nature crisis. Looking at the bigger pictureThe UN Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has just published a global assessment of the state of nature, ecosystems and nature's contributions to people. Compiled by 145 expert authors from 50 countries over the past three years,with inputs

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-research-biodiversity-comment-ipbes-global-assessment-report - 2025-10-25

Improved and sustainable Menstrual Health Management has great impact on several of the Sustainable Development Goals, including: Good health and well-being, Gender equality, Quality education, Sustainable cities and communities, and Clean water and sanitation. On the 28th of May we join the commemoration of the Menstrual Hygiene day to highlight the importance of improved and sustainable MHM. Dur

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/menstrual-hygiene-day-2019-itstimeforaction - 2025-10-25

LUCSUS researchers are developing an Urban Living Lab approach to adress sustainability in the food, water, energy nexus through the case of craft beer sector in Sweden (Scania). The LUCSUS researchers, Barry Ness, Darin Wahl and Christine Wamsler are working in a large transdisciplinary research project called GLOCULL, trying to build a link between global and local sustainability innovations, ty

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/promoting-sustainability-swedish-craft-beer-sector-through-urban-living-labs - 2025-10-25

At this year's Almedalen, LUCSUS researchers will discuss climate variability and its impact on water, sustainable land use, flying, and the Greta effect on today's youth. Here is the full list of LUCSUS related events taking place in Visby, Gotland. Almedalen is a week long democratic meeting place for seminars and dialogue. Monday, 1st JulySka man skaffa färre barn – för klimatet?Arrangör: Svens

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-almedalen - 2025-10-25

In June, LUCSUS researchers Genesis Yengoh, Sara Gabrielsson and Ann Åkerman kicked off the capacity building programme Land is Life. During two intense weeks, 13 future leaders from Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda participated in i lecturers, field trips, group work and discussions in Kisumu, Kenya.  The capacity building programme is lead by LUCSUS and Lund University Commissioned Education (

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-kicked-new-capacity-building-programme-ecosystem-and-biodiversity-kenya - 2025-10-25

A complex web of legislation, a lack of awareness about the benefits of seagrass meadows, and powerful interests all combine to make the governance, protection and maintainance of seagrass meadows difficult according to new research from LUCSUS. Meanwhile segrasses have a hugely important ecological and economic role in maintaining ecosystems and the tourism industry. In a new paper, Torsten Kraus

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/segrasses-have-hugely-important-ecological-and-economic-role-new-research-publication - 2025-10-25

Instead of betting big on bioenergy, governments need to focus on the hard medicine of cutting fossil fuel use. There is no shortcut to climate change mitigation, says Lennart Olsson, professor at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies and lead author of the IPCC special report on Climate Change and Land, in a news article in Science regarding the "negative emissions strategy" BECCS . I

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/bioenergy-plantations-could-fight-climate-change-threaten-food-crops-un-panel-warns - 2025-10-25