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Johanna Lissinger Peitz is working as Chief negotiator for the Swedish delegation to the climate negotiations in Paris 2015. Home country: Sweden Current work position: Deputy Director, Division for Climate, Ministry of the Environment and Energy Graduation year from the IIIEE: 2000 Describe your job and the most exciting aspects of it:I am currently working as the Deputy Chief negotiator for the

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/deputy-director-division-climate-ministry-environment-and-energy-career-iiiee-alumna - 2025-11-23

Professor Jenny Palm and PhD student Frans Libertson state that the debate about Sweden's energy systems means a risk to overlook better and cheaper solutions to handle the lack of electricity. Sweden’s electricity production and consumption have become a hot topic this cold winter of 2021. Increasing prices and a lack of electricity has led to a discussion among politicians in Swedish media. In a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/decentralized-energy-systems-give-advantages - 2025-11-23

The report Circular Economy Outlook 2021, published by Cradlenet, aims to provide insights on the state of the circular economy in Sweden today, and what we should expect going forward. While examining some of the main issues of the circular economy, this report focuses on the industry and business sectors. The report is based on qualitative interviews with circular economy experts, researchers, a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-insights-circular-economy-cradlenet - 2025-11-23

Lena Neij, professor vid IIIEE, är en av fyra forskare som blivit tillfrågade om president Bidens klimatagenda. Läs mer i artikeln i Miljö & Utveckling (extern länk, nytt fönster)  

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/fyra-klimatforskare-om-president-biden-och-klimatet - 2025-11-23

The Swedish Delegation for Circular Economy has published an interview with IIIEE researcher Carl Dalhammar on its homepage. In the interview, Carl discusses the importance of product regulation as a key strategy to reach a Circular economy. Read the interview with Carl (in Swedish, new window)  

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/product-regulation-and-circular-economy - 2025-11-23

Governance of nature-based solutions in the city at the intersection of justice and equity. A NATURVATION inspired special issue been has published in “Cities”. On the one hand the volume provides a diagnosis of the justice implications embedded in recent efforts to renature cities.  Placed in the breadth of existing scholarship, it aims to explore the type of socio-environmental contradictions an

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/special-issue-nature-based-solutions-journal-cities - 2025-11-23

This is in focus in a recently published open access article, “The role of local governments in overcoming barriers to industrial symbiosis” in Cleaner Environmental Systems, by Karolina Södergren and Jenny Palm. There is a growing interest in knowledge sharing and partnering, as is evident from the establishment of multiple industrial symbiosis (IS) networks at local and regional level. This arti

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-can-local-governments-support-industrial-symbiosis-emerge - 2025-11-23

Frans Libertson, doctoral student at the IIIEE, has published a new article in Energy, Sustainability and Society. The focus of the article is to decipher the ongoing media discourse in Sweden concerning the electricity shortage and its proposed solutions, and thereby also discerning the related pathways for Sweden’s energy future. In Sweden, as in most other nations around the globe, the electric

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-competing-socio-technical-narratives-swedens-energy-future - 2025-11-23

New article published by Postdoc Katharina Reindl and Professor Jenny Palm. There is huge potential to increase installation of photovoltaics (PV) using the roofs of non-residential buildings. While barriers to and enablers of the adoption of PV in residential buildings are well studied, this is not the case for non-residential buildings. This article is intended to fill this research gap by mappi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/installing-photovoltaics-pv-barriers-and-enablers-experienced-non-residential-property-owners - 2025-11-23

Listen to our colleague Jessika Luth Richter in this program about how to make your stuff last longer. What if we got better at fixing things that broke, instead of getting new ones? How can we get more people to repair things? “We need sustainable consumption in order to address the environmental and social problems that we’re facing.  With repair we’re slowing down the impact on the environment

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/people-fixing-world-radio-documentary-produced-bbc - 2025-11-23

New episode of our podcast Advancing Sustainable Solutions Sustainable finance, non-financial disclosures, ESG, oh my! The world of sustainable finance may seem dark and scary. But, in this episode, we introduce many key concepts through dialogue as well as discuss how sustainable finance contributes to wider sustainability objectives. The finance sector is playing an ever growing role in supporti

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sustainable-finance-investing-our-future - 2025-11-23

Offering consumers the option to rent rather than buy furniture and home accessories holds promise for reducing the large volumes of waste associated with home furnishings consumption. However, home furnishings companies face many barriers to implementing rental business models. A new article by IIIEE researchers Heather Schoonover, Oksana Mont, and Matthias Lehner explores these barriers and disc

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-article-understanding-and-overcoming-barriers-home-furnishings-rental - 2025-11-23

Sharing Cities Sweden has produced two new reports – the first on cities, consumption and the sustainable developments goals and the second on the future of sharing in cities and communities. Cities and Consumption: Sharing Cities and Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Download the report Read the blogpost In October 2019, over 200 people from around the world gathered at the Sharing Citi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/two-new-reports-future-sharing-cities-and-consumption - 2025-11-23

Together with Sparbanken Skåne, LU Innovation awards an annual prize to ideas that are good enough to become the innovations of the future. This year, Elaine M'Nkubitu, student at the EMP programme at the IIIEE, is one of the winners. Her idea is to turn organic waste into affordable and sustainable fertilizer in Kenya, where she grew up. Congratulations Elaine! You’re one of the winners of the Fu

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/student-elaine-mnkubitu-one-winners-future-innovation-prize - 2025-11-23

This city report is the result of a Mobile Research Lab conducted online in Shanghai during spring 2020. The Mobile Research Lab involves a combination of methods, including case studies, interviews, observations, expert panels, and in-situ field work. The report presents insights gained by the Urban Sharing research team Oksana Mont (PI), Andrius Plepys, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Matthias Lehner St

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urban-sharing-shanghai-new-report-published - 2025-11-23

Two master theses related to IIIEE won awards in Sysav’s annual thesis competition Emma Johnson was awarded a scholarship for a thesis in the EMP programme: ‘Dressing up the environmental potential for product-service systems: A comparative lifecycle assessment on consumption in rental clothing vs. linear business models.’ Supervisors were IIIEE researchers Andrius Plepys och Ana Maria Arbelaez Ve

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/scholarships-iiiee-students - 2025-11-23

The "Brainy" Bunch: The journey of a PhD student What happens when you take a bunch of people from different cultural and geographical backgrounds, ask them to integrate under one discipline or department, and share a profound and life-changing experience? In this episode, we unpack some of these stories as we look at the journey of a PhD Student at Lund University. We interview our colleagues Emm

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-episode-our-podcast-out-now - 2025-11-23

The COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing, but has already greatly affected countries, economies and actors around the globe. While studies are emerging about impacts of the pandemics on organisations, there is a lack of understanding as to how organisations in general and sharing platforms in particular respond to the crisis. In this study the authors combined systematic literature review with quali

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-article-organisational-response-strategies-covid-19-sharing-economy - 2025-11-23

In April 2021, the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) launched an online learning community on cities, sustainability, governance and innovation that brings together teachers and organisations from around the world to share knowledge and understanding on urban transformations. The City Futures Academy offers vibrant Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that combi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-city-futures-academy - 2025-11-23

Vilka funktioner i samhället ska prioriteras när elnätet når sin maxkapacitet? Vad händer dagen då elförsörjningen inte räcker till alla? Dessa frågor har blivit alltmer aktuella i takt med att elbristen i Sydsverige har blivit mer och mer påtaglig. Frans Libertson, doktorand vid Internationella Miljöinstitutet, Jenny Palm, professor vid Internationella Miljöinstitutet, och Julia Velkova, biträdan

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/debattartikel-i-sydsvenskan-vad-hander-den-dag-da-elen-inte-racker-till-alla - 2025-11-23