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On 15-17 May, the second edition of the Swedish Climate Symposium will take place in Norrköping. The symposium offers is a unique opportunity for scholars and societal actors to seek greater scientific understanding of climate change and its consequences for the environment and society. David Wårlind is part of the steering group for the symposium, and we asked him three questions about why you do

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/three-questions-david-warlind-about-swedish-climate-symposium - 2025-11-07

With the aid of two satellites and machine learning, researcher Hakim Abdi is mapping the composition of tree species in Swedish forests down to the individual stands. Through the creation of a method capable of generating annual maps of tree diversity, his aim is to assist in forest management and decision-making regarding both climate and biodiversity strategies. Funded by the Swedish National S

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forest-analysis-through-satellite-data-and-machine-learning - 2025-11-07

An evolutionary perspective should be taken into account to ensure long-term crop pollination. This is the conclusion of an article published by BECC and CEC-affiliated researchers at Lund University. The researchers build on recent findings that evolutionary processes, in response to landscape change, are happening faster than previously thought. The article presents a model that can help us unde

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/effects-landscape-change-evolution-pollinators - 2025-11-07

Sustainability Week is an annual event where Lund University and the Lund Municipality invite you to participate in sustainability activities. It is a week full of discussions and lectures, serious issues and hopeful visions for the future. Here you can find all the events of the week with participants from the Centre for Environment and Climate Science. Monday 8 April - Friday 12 AprilSearching f

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/our-events-sustainability-week-lund-2024 - 2025-11-07

Ullrika Sahlin, a CEC researcher specialising in Computational Science for Health and Environment (COSHE) research, recently completed a mission for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). EFSA's scientific experts learned how to express uncertainty in a clear way. EFSA was set up in 2002 in the wake of crises of confidence in food safety. Its mandate is to carry out scientific assessments of r

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/improving-food-safety-risk-assessment-eu - 2025-11-07

A computational science hub, COSHE, has been established at Lund University. The aim is to become a creative hub for computational science with a focus on interdisciplinary research in the fields of health, climate and the environment. COSHE works with machine learning, statistical learning methods, physical system modeling and quantum computing. The research groups behind COSHE already have parti

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/computational-science-hub-sharpen-research-environment-and-health - 2025-11-07

Toxins and chemicals are a major threat to our environment. The "third crisis" - the chemical crisis - is often forgotten when we talk about the climate and endangered species. Ahead of Biodiversity Day on 22 May, Maria Hansson, a researcher at Lund University, offers tips on how to create a non-toxic environment in your own garden, benefiting all its inhabitants, big and small. Synthetically prod

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/five-ways-create-toxin-free-garden - 2025-11-07

After a year of intensive work by many involved, the Swedish Climate Symposium with its close to 400 participants, has come to an end. Now an evaluation of the conference awaits, but the feeling is that most people experienced it as a successful event. To take the pulse during the symposium itself, we did a couple of short interviews with some of those who were there. Read the article which is pub

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/voices-swedish-climate-symposium - 2025-11-07

Have you noticed that when scientists are asked whether or not a particular extreme weather event is due to climate change, they usually respond with something like "It fits the pattern, but we can't say for sure that this particular event is worse because of climate change"? Weather attribution is a new phenomenon that is changing this. Climate scientist Wilhelm May at Lund University helps us ge

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/weather-attribution-climate-scientist-wilhelm-may-helps-us-get-grips-concept - 2025-11-07

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 yields than conventional farming. Studies led by Lund University now show that the yield difference between organic and conventional farming is smaller than previously thought, but the yields are still significantly smaller than fo

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/organic-farms-potential-higher-yields - 2025-11-07

Even in Earth’s high northern-latitude forest, climate change is predicted to make wildfires more frequent and severe.Earth’s far north hosts the boreal forest, a vast green belt that stretches from North America to Siberia. The boreal forest is one of the world’s largest CO₂ sinks. Over the past few thousand years it has removed around 1 trillion tonnes of carbon from the air, storing it in the t

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forests-destroyed-wildfires-emit-carbon-long-after-flames-die - 2025-11-07

The income and education levels of a child’s environment determine their relationship to nature, not whether they live in a city or the countryside. This is the finding of a new study conducted by researchers at Lund University, Sweden. The results run counter to the assumption that growing up in the countryside automatically increases our connection to nature, and yet the study also shows that na

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/socioeconomic-circumstances-shape-childrens-connection-nature-more-where-they-live - 2025-11-07

In 2022, the world's nations achieved a "Paris Agreement for nature" — the Kunming-Montreal Framework, negotiated during COP15 in Canada. Now, the follow-up meeting, COP16, is set to take place in Cali, Colombia. What is Sweden’s position ahead of this meeting, and what policy processes are underway for the implementation of the framework? And where does research fit into all of this? We posed a f

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/policy-insights-ahead-cop16-colombia - 2025-11-07

In the Colombian rainforest, cattle ranching is spreading and leading to forest fires and deforestation. This threatens the environment, climate and indigenous people in the Amazon. More efficient use of existing pastures and alternative livelihoods are some of the factors needed to protect the rainforest, according to a new thesis by Jesica López. Colombia's rainforest is part of the Amazon and i

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/new-thesis-highlights-sustainable-solutions-protect-amazon-rainforest - 2025-11-07

Applications are now open for the CMES Workshop Proposal of 2025. Application deadline is 30 May 2025. The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) supports and coordinates workshops with high scientific potential through the Strategic Research Area Middle East in the Contemporary World (MECW). CMES funds 1-2 new workshops per year and encourages interdisciplinary collaboration between re

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-call-workshop-proposal - 2025-11-07

Read the April CMES Newsletter about upcoming events, recent research activities, and new publications. The CMES Newsletter offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Middle Eastern research. It is distributed regularly to a diverse audience of scholars, both within Lund University and beyond. Each issue features:Message From the DirectorLatest Research NewsUpcoming EventsRecent Publication

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/read-latest-cmes-newsletter-51 - 2025-11-07

Rhys Machold visited Lund for a book talk on "Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel". In collaboration with CMES, the Swedish South Asia Studies Network (SASNET) hosted a book talk with Dr. Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow) at Finngatan 16.The book Fabricating Homeland Security by Rhys Machold locates homeland security as a universalizing transnat

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/book-talk-fabricating-homeland-security-police-entanglements-across-india-and-palestineisrael - 2025-11-07

CMES researchers Svante Lundgren and Pinar Dinc recently visited Yerevan, Armenia, for the launch of a new book and to engage in academic discussions. On 23 April, CMES researchers Svante Lundgren and Pinar Dinc participated in a panel discussion at Yerevan State University (YSU) for the launch of a new open access edited book by Pinar Dinc and Olga Selin Hunler (Acıbadem University), The Republic

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-researchers-join-academic-exchanges-during-yerevan-visit - 2025-11-07

Welcome to a CMES Public Talk with Göran Rosenberg on the future of Israel. On Wednesday 21 May, CMES will host a public talk with renowned Swedish writer and journalist Göran Rosenberg on the future of Israel. The talk will be in conversation with Lisa Strömbom (Department of Political Science, Lund University), and moderated by CMES Director Karin Aggestam.This event is a collaboration with Lund

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/whither-israel-upcoming-public-cmes-talk-goran-rosenberg - 2025-11-07

CMES Researcher Pinar Dinc has written an article for The Conversation about the recent developments in the negotiations between Turkey and PKK. AbstractNegotiations to end more than 40 years of conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) have taken on a concrete dimension. On May 12, two months after the PKK’s imprisoned leader, Abdullah Öcalan, wrote a letter in whi

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/why-are-turkey-and-pkk-turning-peace-and-can-it-last - 2025-11-07