By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 24 May 2024 The Alliance of World Scientists awards the Earth Planet Awards. Kimberly Nicholas is one of the recipients 2024. Kimberly Nicholas, Asssociate Professor at LUCSUS, is one of six recipients of the 2024 Planet Earth Award, a prestigous prize which acknowledges individuals who champion life on Earth. These individual

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/associate-professor-kimberly-nicholas-recipient-2024-planet-earth-award - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 16 April 2024 The inscription on the mural reads: Yes to Life, a comment on the continued violence in the Andean-amazon. Photo: Juan Samper. The silencing of social leaders in Colombia who are defending their territories leads to a historical erasure of social struggles, a decreased capacity to progress environmental and human

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/silencing-social-leaders-colombia-leads-historical-erasure-social-struggle - 2025-01-09

Published 8 February 2017 Follow us live on the World Water Day, March 22, 8:30-12:15World Water Day is an annual event celebrated on March 22. The day focuses attention on the importance of fresh water and advocates for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.During 2017, in connection with the Lund University 350-year anniversary, we would like to take the opportunity to pay extra att

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/world-water-day-march-22 - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 23 April 2024 CLIMES aims to be an interdisciplinary platform for research and training to promote scientific progress in the study of climate extremes and support societal resilience. Professor Emily Boyd is Co-Director of CLIMES, the recently established Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes. Led by Uppsala Universi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/emily-boyd-her-hopes-new-swedish-centre-impacts-climate-extremes - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 20 May 2024 The picture shows the glacier, also known as La Corona, in 2016, before it was reclassified as an ice field. Photo: Leonel Delgado. Professor Emily Boyd has been researching loss and damage from climate change for more than 10 years. To her, the news that Venezuela’s last glacier, the Humboldt glacier, is being rec

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/loss-venezuelas-last-glacier-points-future-where-loss-opposed-damage-new-reality - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 5 June 2024 The picture shows the poster for the musical Pärlornas Sånger which was performed in June in 2023 for the first time. Professor Christine Wamsler's research and extraordinary work on integrated inner-outer transformation for sustainability has made it into a musical! The musical is entitled ‘Pärlornas Sånger’. It i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/musical-tribute-featuring-christine-wamslers-work-and-vision-sustainable-future - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 June 2024 A key finding of Kelly Dorkenoo's thesis is that climate-related loss should be understood as occurring when people lose the ability to derive benefits from things that they value, due to climatic and socio-economic drivers. What is climate-related loss and when can it be considered disproportionate? This question

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-thesis-advances-understanding-disproportionate-climate-related-loss-focus-land-cambodia - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 17 June 2024 The illustration highlighs potential reactions to increased fuel prices. Illustration: Saskia Gullstrand. Unfair, ineffective, and inefficient. These are some of the moral objections to increasing fuel prices in Sweden. A new study from Lund University identifies how social movements are resisting green transition

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/moral-resistance-green-transitions-focuses-unfairness-inefficiency-and-ineffectiveness - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 13 June 2024 Participants at the POLLEN2024 conference. The POLLEN2024 conference in June gathered hundreds of researchers across three sites Dodoma (Tanzania), Lima (Peru) and Lund (Sweden) in 200 special panels to discuss political ecology for just and plural futures. Some of the organisers at Lund University and University

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/reflections-pollen2024-what-makes-29-researchers-three-continents-join-forces-create-conference - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 19 June 2024 Natalia Rubiiano's thesis presents a number of findings connected to justice. One relates to ideas of land availability and the definition of marginal land, that might be used for afforestation or BECCS. A new thesis explores how justice, which is a core principle of the global climate agreements, is considered in

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/ipcc-pathways-run-risk-reproducing-historical-injustices-according-new-thesis - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 5 September 2024 PhD student Stefan Schüller is researching the prospects of a perennial revolution in agriculture as part of the PERENNIAL project. He is motivated by how perennial systems can address many of the problems connected to agriculture, and hopes to challenge incumbent power structures and spur radical transformati

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-stefan-schuller-explores-prospects-perennial-revolution-agriculture - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 10 October 2024 Pictured from top, left to right: Melissa García-Lamarca, Emily Boyd, Bregje van Veelen, Lennart Olsson and Christine Wamsler. LUCSUS is incredibly proud to announce that several of the centre's researchers are recognised in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist ranking 2024! Professor Christine Wamsler was ra

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-included-stanfordelsevier-top-2-scientist-2024-ranking - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 18 October 2024 Vaupes in the Colombian Amazon – a view of forest coverage in an Indigenous managed territory. The photo was taken 2015 by Carlos Alberto Hernandez Veléz. COP16 in Cali, Colombia, is the first Conference of the Parties since the adoption of the landmark Biodiversity Plan in 2022 in which countries pledged to sa

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-are-ideal-outcomes-cop16 - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 November 2024 COP29 participants pictured during day one, 11th November, of the climate conference. UN Climate Change - Habib Samadov COP29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, has just started in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running from 11th to 22nd November, a key priority for this year's climate conference is to secure a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/professor-emily-boyds-expectations-cop29 - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 November 2024 COP29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, has just started in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running from 11th to 22nd November, a key priority for this year's climate conference is to secure a new goal on climate finance, ensuring every country has the means to take much stronger climate action, slashing greenh

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-cop29-baku-azerbaijan - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 8 December 2024 Out of 283 districts in Europe, only two collective regions perform well in both social and environmental sustainability. This is concerning as it suggests that the EU farm subsidy scheme, the Common Agricultural Policy, is failing to deliver on its aim to protect rural livelihoods, landscapes and the environme

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/mapping-hotspots-sustainable-and-unsustainable-agriculture-europe - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 9 December 2024 Over 40% of the land pledged in the countries' climate plans is envisaged to be converted into forests from other land uses according to the researchers' study. Photo: Pixabay. A billion hectares – or an area a bit larger than the US – that is how much land that would be required globally to meet countries’ net

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/countries-unrealistic-land-demands-reach-net-zero-area-bit-larger-us - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 11 December 2024 The University House pictured by Kennet Ruona. LUCSUS Director Barry Ness and Professor Lennart Olsson are proud that Lund University is ranked third in the world in Sustainability in the QS World University Rankings. It is a ranking well deserved they say. – Over the past 25 years, researchers at Lund Univers

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranked-third-world-qs-sustainability-ranking-well-deserved - 2025-01-09

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 18 December 2024 The flight-free movement seems to have paved the way for cultural change in high-carbon norms and practices which is absolutely necessary in the climate transition says Sara Ullström. Illustration: Markus Wendén. Have the flight-free movement’s calls to avoid flying because of climate change had an impact on t

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-dissertation-explores-how-swedens-flight-free-movement-challenges-social-norms-around-flying - 2025-01-09

Published 14 February 2017 - I’m expecting interesting and exciting entries, says Ann Åkerman, LUCSUS.On Thursday (16h February), Ann Åkerman and Chad Boda, also from LUCSUS, will travel to the high school ProCivitas in Helsingborg to nominate best student entry for a project called Sustainable Innovations. As part of the project, which runs throughout the spring, first year students have to come

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/who-will-win-best-innovation-lucsus-procivitas - 2025-01-09