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What is the role of urban mining for sustainability? Getting back resources from waste products is essential, but not enough. IIIEE researcher Jessika Luth Richter was interviewed by BBC radio about urban mining. The main messages from stakeholders and researchers are that there is much potential for urban mining and in many cases waste products are rich sources for rare metals that are needed for

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/can-urban-mining-save-planet - 2025-12-13

Lund was the first municipality to create a local climate policy council in 2018. The council consists of researchers from Lund University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Every year the council hands over a report to the municipal board and on May 4 Professor Lena Neij from the IIIEE presented the 2022 report. The council reviews Lund’s work with climate impact and reduction o

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/climate-report-2022-presented-lund-municipality - 2025-12-13

The Lund University Agenda 2030 Award was handed out for the first time at a ceremony in Lund on May 5. The award wants to promote innovative and interdisciplinary research on sustainable development by early career scholars at the university. Steven Curtis, Sofie Sandin Lompar, Frans Libertson, Katherine Shabb and Karolina Södergren received an honorary mention for their innovative approach of sh

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-podcast-advancing-sustainable-solutions-receives-honorary-mention - 2025-12-13

How do we get access to work, meetings, education, shopping, entertainment, healthcare? Today we can get access to many of these things digitally at a distance, reducing our need for travel and offering a preventative and potentially transformative solution to our transport problems. But what are the actual effects from digitalization on transport? What effects will we see in the "new normal", now

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/will-digital-services-make-us-travel-less - 2025-12-13

Urban Living Labs: Visiting researcher James Evans in search of success factors Can urban living labs create more sustainable urban development? Manchester researcher James Evans and colleagues at the IIIEE are studying and comparing four Scandinavian cases, seeking common drivers of success – and of failure.  – Today, cities face the enormous challenge of climate change and are searching for effe

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-visiting-iiiee-researcher-james-evans - 2025-12-13

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and the City of Malmö partnered with the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics and the City Futures Academy to support capacity building and lifelong learning of participants at the ICLEI World Congress 2021 – 2022. At the event, Kes McCormick in collaboration with the Coffee Break film team organised interviews with a variety o

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-iclei-world-congress-filming-and-podcasting-capacity-building-and-lifelong-learning - 2025-12-13

Join an online interactive event on May 25, moderated by Professor Lena Neij from the IIIEE. A scientific conversation on the green transition with a panel of specialists in the field. Scan the QR code or use this link to read more and register

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/energy-transition-current-crisis-opportunity-reversion - 2025-12-13

Jenny Palm and Ellen Boije af Gennäs Erre have published a policy brief, providing a summary on the current legislation concerning energy communities in Sweden. Based on the Renewable energy directive (2018/2001) the Energy Market Inspectorate proposed a bill that stated that energy communities should be economic associations with a protected name that indicates that they are energy communities. T

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/policy-brief-energy-communities-sweden - 2025-12-13

Businesses are an essential driver for sustainability, yet managers struggle to make decisions about their business model that actually improve their sustainability performance. In this episode, we meet Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Henning Breuer, and Lorenzo Massa, authors of the new book called ‘Sustainable Business Model Design’. They introduce the concept of sustainable business model patterns, to s

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-sustainable-business-model-design-patterns-make-sustainability-work - 2025-12-13

Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Getting the most out of Urban Living Labs A new trans-European project aims to better define and evaluate the concept of Urban Living Labs. One goal is to understand what can be shared and learned in order to advance urban sustainability transitions.Across Europe, so-called Urban Living Labs are being developed as a response to the need to understand

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-kes-mccormick - 2025-12-13

Stockholm+50 takes place June 2-3, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the UN Environmental Programme. The ambition is to commemorate the jubilee and 50 years of global environmental action but also to step up the pace of the transition to a more sustainable future. One paper, written together with researchers at KTH in Stockholm, is titled “Making governance better for fair and sustainable consum

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/carl-dalhammar-contributes-background-reports-stockholm50-conference - 2025-12-13

As part of current efforts to work towards sustainable development, find solutions to curb greenhouse gas emissions, and adapt cities to the effects of climate change, such as floods and extreme heat, there are high hopes that nature-based solutions (NBS) can support the transformation needed. Based on the knowledge that implementation of NBS is still emerging and constrained by various barriers,

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/implementation-nature-based-solutions-cities-requires-collaboration-learning-and-co-production - 2025-12-13

Over 280 cities from the entire world participated and Lund was elected winner, together with Bogotá. Lund has ambitious climate goals and programmes and the Climate Policy Council reviews Lund’s work with climate impact. Read more about the award and how Lund is working with climate issues: WWF press release (in Swedish) More about Lund Climate Policy Council 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lund-awarded-first-place-wwf-one-planet-city-challenge - 2025-12-13

Growing attention is being given to the role of citizens’ political agency in the development of low-carbon transport systems. In a newly published paper, we reveal the complex, intertwined nature of multiple factors explaining this phenomenon, including trust. Using Sweden as a case study, the ‘Behavioural Insights Lab for Sustainable Energy Use and Rapid Decarbonisation’ at the IIIEE, in collabo

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/low-carbon-transport-systems-and-public-engagement-should-we-trust-mistrust - 2025-12-13

The programmes are carried out with financial support from the Swedish Institute, which means they are free of charge for you. They will be conducted part-time and largely online, with either a visit to Sweden or mentoring and/or workshops in the participants’ countries and/or region. Human Rights and Gender Equality in Climate and Disaster Displacement focuses on making Freetown, Addis Ababa and

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/open-applications-three-agenda-2030-capacity-development-programmes - 2025-12-13

On 10 June 2022, Björn Wickenberg successfully defended his thesis “Translation and Implementation of Nature-based Solutions in Cities: Experimentation, Learning and Knowledge Production”. Congratulations Björn! Read more about Björn’s thesis in a previously published news 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/bjorn-wickenberg-successfully-defended-his-thesis - 2025-12-13

The transition to a low-carbon society requires a deep transformation, enabled by rapid adoption of new energy technologies. A main driver for this will be technology learning, providing cost reductions in low-carbon technologies. Over the past two decades, learning has provided substantial cost reductions for a number of hardware technologies, such as PV modules, wind turbines, and battery packs,

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-article-accelerating-low-carbon-transition-will-require-policy-enhance-local-learning - 2025-12-13

Malmö Innovation Platform: Sustainable renovating takes social skills Sustainable renovation of the Swedish Million Homes Programme is a challenge in all aspects – economic, social and ecological. In this platform, IIIEE researchers contribute to the development of joint innovation capacity in the southeast of Malmö.  During the 1960s and the 1970s, more than a million apartment homes were built i

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-kes-mccormick-0 - 2025-12-13

On June 13 we celebrated the students’ completion of the Master’s programme in Environmental Management and Policy. After two years of pandemic, we could finally have a traditional ceremony in the university assembly hall, with graduates, family and friends gathered. The ceremony started with a procession with flags and graduates and teachers walking from the IIIEE building to the main university

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/graduation-batch-27 - 2025-12-13

The aim of this course is for students to learn what the Circular Economy (CE) is, and how its emergence can be facilitated as the result of choices and strategies by suppliers, designers, businesses, policymakers, and all of us as consumers. The course delivers knowledge of where important materials in products we use every day are sourced from, and how these materials can be used more efficientl

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/online-course-circular-economy-managing-materials-sustainably-75-credits-open-registration - 2025-12-13