Published 5 April 2016 Nora Smedby defends her Doctoral thesis on 8 April On 8 April 2016, Nora Smedby at the IIIEE will defend her Doctoral thesis with the title: Local Environmental Governance: Assessing proactive initiatives in building energy efficiency.Oponent is Professor Matthew J. Hoffmann and supervisor is Professor Lena NeijView press release here (Swedish only) 

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Published 6 April 2016 Photo: Johan Persson The 2015 Annual Report of the IIIEE has been completed! Please view the full report here: Annual Report 2015

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Published 11 April 2016 Nora Smedby Photo: Håkan Rodhe On 8 April, IIIEE researcher Nora Smedby defended her Ph.D. thesis Local environmental governance: Assessing proactive initiatives in building energy efficiency. An interview in Swedish was made with Nora in connection to her thesis defence, see below:Published: 08/04/2016Så kan kommuner driva på omställningen till energieffektiva byggnader– D

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Published 11 April 2016 The IIIEE is offering a Postdoctoral position in the area of economics focusing on environmental management and policy.Last application date: 29 April 2016More information here

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Published 13 April 2016 New Special Volume on Advancing Sustainable SolutionsGuest editors: Kes McCormick, Lena Neij, Oksana Mont, Chris Ryan, Håkan Rodhe & Renato OrsatoSustainable solutions are needed to drive a profound industrial and societal transformation towards a sustainable, low-carbon, resilient, equitable and prosperous future. This Special Volume of the Journal of Cleaner Production ad

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Published 19 April 2016 Greening the Economy: Sustainable Cities Both our Greening the Economy MOOCs start new 5-week sessions on Monday 25 April - join 1000s that are learning about lessons from Scandinavia and sustainable cities!Lessons from ScandinaviaHow can we live a good life on one planet with over seven billion people? This course explores greening the economy on four levels – individual,

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Published 21 April 2016 Luis Mundaca gave a keynote speech on the ‘Climate Paris Agreement’ at the University of Seville, Spain.On 16 March, at the IX Int’l Seminar on Economics and the Environment, Associate Professor Luis Mundaca at the IIIEE talked about the outcomes and challenges associated with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. His presentation, titled ‘The Climate Paris Agreement: not

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Published 22 April 2016 Professor Oksana Mont Photo: Kennet Ruona Urban sharing of assets, spaces and skills has emerged as a promising future solution to sustainability challenges faced by cities. It is also the subject of a new project by Oksana Mont, professor in sustainable consumption and production at IIIEE, who recently received the Swedish Foundations’ Starting Grant – a new grant intended

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By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 21 May 2024 By choosing natural materials, putting away plastic items and avoiding chemicals, we can favour biodiversity in our gardens, says researcher Maria Hansson. Photo: Johan Persson Toxins and chemicals are a major threat to our environment. The "third crisis" - the chemical crisis - is often forgotten when we t

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/five-ways-create-toxin-free-garden - 2025-03-08

By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 23 May 2024 Opening session of Swedish Climate Symposium 2024 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 p

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By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 18 June 2024 Sweden is also increasingly affected by unusually intense storms. Here, a flooded playground in the city of Landskrona after the storm "Hans" in August 2023. 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 somethi

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By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 5 July 2024 The common reed is considered a weed, but in the farmed landscape it can benefit biodiversity as its seeds become food for insects and its pollen is a mummy for some pollinators. Here it grows beautifully in a spring barley field. One of the world's greatest challenges is to feed the world's population in a sustain

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By natascha [dot] kljun [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Natascha Kljun and Julia Kelly) - published 6 August 2024 A Swedish forest after a fire. Photo: Natascha Kljun 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 f

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forests-destroyed-wildfires-emit-carbon-long-after-flames-die - 2025-03-08

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 22 August 2024 Children in areas with lower socioeconomic levels gain the most from targeted nature projects, especially if they have no direct access to nature close to where they live. Photo: Anna Avdeeva/iStockphoto The income and education levels of a child’s environment determine their relationship to nature

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/socioeconomic-circumstances-shape-childrens-connection-nature-more-where-they-live - 2025-03-08

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 2 October 2024 António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, speaking at COP15 in Montreal, Canada. Photo: Maria Blasi 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

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Published 17 October 2024 Stricter environmental requirements and alternative sources of income for the population are needed to stop deforestation in the Amazon, Jesica López's thesis shows. Photo: Sara Håkansson 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

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By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 15 October 2024 The Ecology building, Lund University. Photo: Sara Håkansson. CEC is responsible for the interdisciplinary PhD programme in Environmental Science. CEC now announces funding to partly finance up to three (3) doctoral student projects, where the doctoral students are admitted to the PhD programme in

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/funding-doctoral-student-projects-environmental-science-0 - 2025-03-08

By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 24 October 2024 Long-term effective methods are needed to curb the negative effects of coastal erosion. Within the LIFE Coast Adapt project, researchers from Lund University, together with officials from Region Skåne and several coastal municipalities in Skåne, have tested various nature-based methods to contribute to a practi

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/collaboration-led-methods-can-protect-our-coastal-environments-erosion - 2025-03-08

By jesica [dot] lopez [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Jesica López) - published 25 October 2024 Photo: Dylan Shaw/Unsplash The city of Cali, in Colombia, is hosting the UN’s 16th biodiversity summit, known as Cop16. The summit, which runs until Friday, November 1, is focused on how countries will fulfil previous pledges to protect at least 30% of the world’s land and water and restore 30% of degraded

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/colombia-hosts-un-biodiversity-summit-its-own-amazonian-rainforest-crisis - 2025-03-08

Published 28 November 2024 What were the main outcomes of the UN Biodiversity Conference COP16 and what happened behind the scenes? Here are key takeaways from our webinar with negotiators, researchers, NGOs and other experts. On 21 November, some 150 people tuned into the webinar Post COP16 analysis: From biodiversity commitments to action. The event was co-organized by SIANI, Focali, Stockholm E

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/post-match-analysis-cop16-learn-what-happened-and-why-it-matters - 2025-03-08