By cheryl [dot] sjostrom [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Cheryl Sjöström) - published 21 October 2024 Summer may be extending longer into the season, but we still have changed the name of our annual meetings in September to Autumn meetings. And this year autumn showed itself in full effect when ClimBEco students arrived by train from the north and the south into Helsingborg on 25-27 September and gett

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/reflections-climbeco-autumn-meeting-2024 - 2025-01-15

Published 23 October 2024 Jesica López on her participation at COP16 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 thes

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-thesis-highlights-sustainable-solutions-protect-amazon-rainforest - 2025-01-15

Published 28 October 2024 The government has appointed Olof Johansson Stenman, professor of economics at the University of Gothenburg and a BECC PI, as a new member of the Climate Policy Council. "It is an honor, but above all, it is an important task that the council has," he says. The Climate Policy Council is an independent and interdisciplinary expert body that evaluates and reviews the govern

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/olof-johansson-stenman-new-member-climate-policy-council - 2025-01-15

Published 24 November 2024 Research estimates that rainforests account for more than half of all carbon captured by plants on our planet. However, photosynthesis is disrupted when levels of ground-level ozone become too high. Photo by Johan Wingborg Exhaust fumes and burning reduce the ability of rainforests to capture carbon by 0.29 billion tonnes each year. A new study by researchers from the Un

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/burning-reduce-rainforest-carbon-sequestration - 2025-01-15

Published 27 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.becc.lu.se/article/post-match-analysis-cop16-learn-what-happened-and-why-it-matters - 2025-01-15

Published 5 December 2024 Andreas Nord, a researcher at the Department of Biology and Mikkel Brydegaard, senior lecturer at the Physics department - both members of BECC, have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant Mikkel Brydegaard draws on his experiences from electrical engineering and atomic physics to develop laser diagnostic tools for new insights into the ecology and diversity of insects.By

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Published 11 December 2024 Grass fodder production in southern Sweden. Photo: Josefin Winberg. Bioenergy plays a vital role in the transition to a fossil-free society. However, the "unused" agricultural land, so-called marginal land, deemed suitable for bioenergy cultivation in southern Sweden is practically nonexistent, according to a new study from Lund University. Much of the land is already in

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/land-identified-crucial-swedish-bioenergy-already-occupied-new-study-shows - 2025-01-15

Published 29 September 2014 Håkan Wallander was one of the speakers at the Gothenburg Book Fair this weekend. See his talk about his book "Soil". BECC researcher Håkan Wallander talked about his main research interest: soil, at the big book fair in Gothenburg. You can hear him share his knowledge about soil in this talk.  Håkan's book "Jord" was recently translated into English, you can find the b

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/soil-talk-book-fair-gothenburg - 2025-01-15

Published 17 October 2014 A new report from "miljöforskningsberedningen" (MFB), a council for dialogue between the scientific community and the Swedish Minister for climate and the Environment, is arguing that the environmental politics has to change fundamentally in order to be effective. Henrik Smith, coordinator of BECC at Lund University, and Olof Johansson-Stenman, University of Gothenburg, a

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/environmental-politics-should-be-included-all-politics - 2025-01-15

Published 27 October 2014 Welcome to the BECC Annual Meeting 2014, a lunch-to-lunch meeting, 24-25 November. The theme of this year's meeting is "Science to policy" with examples from climate and ecosystem based research and policy, as IPCC and IPBES. The goal of this annual meeting is to create dialogue on how we can bring the BECC science to policy, to broaden our knowledge about the BECC resear

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Published 27 October 2014 Read more about new reports from BECC, coming events, open positions, courses and much more in the October newsletter. BECC Annual Meeting in Halmstad on 24-25 November, a new report from MFB, "miljöforskningsberedningen" and the world's leading climate researchers gathered at the School of Business, Economics & Law - these are just some of the headlines of the new BECC n

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-newsletter - 2025-01-15

Published 25 November 2014 BECC researcher Fariborz Zelli is one of the organizers of a side-event at COP 20, in Lima, Peru on the 4th of December. The title of the event is "REDD and beyond". BECC researcher Tobias Nielsen is one of the speakers at the side-event. REDD is one a series of incentive-based mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to REDD, and partly out of criti

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-cop-20-side-event-redd-and-beyond - 2025-01-15

Published 9 December 2014 Read Fariborz Zelli's report on the side-event 'REDD and Beyond: International and Indegenous Strategies in Forest Protection', held in Lima on the 4th of December. On Thursday, 4th December, BECC was one of the initiators of a side-event on ‘REDD and Beyond: International and Indigenous Strategies in Forest Protection’. The event was co-organised by Lund University and t

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-united-nations-climate-conference - 2025-01-15

Published 10 December 2014 On 24-25 November, the BECC Annual Meeting 2014 was held in Halmstad. The meeting focused on the future possibilities of research within BECC and what is to come. For those of you who could not join the meeting - and those of you who would like to see a particularly interesting presentation again - we have collected the presentations from the meeting here. The fifth annu

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/report-presentations-becc-annual-meeting-2014 - 2025-01-15

Published 10 December 2014 Lund University has collected the top research of the university's twelve strategic reseach environments in a new book. BECC is one of these environments. In 2008, the Swedish Government designated 20 ‘Strategic Research Areas’ (SRAs) in its research-policy bill. Within these 20 areas, 43 research environments were chosen for specific funding in a special evaluation in 2

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/todays-great-explorers - 2025-01-15

Av erica [dot] talven [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Erica Talvén) - publicerad 23 november 2023 Den 14 till 15 november 2023 hölls det årliga evenemanget EU Days Lund. Där organiserade Centrum för europaforskning, tillsammans med Svenska institutet för europapolitiska studier (Sieps), ett seminarium med titeln “A resilient Europe”. Panelen bestod av Cecilia Malmström, Lars Danielsson, och Rikard Ben

https://www.cfe.lu.se/artikel/eu-days-lund-ett-motstandskraftigt-europa - 2025-01-15

Av erica [dot] talven [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Erica Talvén) - publicerad 23 november 2023 Under årets EU Days Lund, 14-15 november, organiserade EU-kommissionen i Sverige en paneldiskussion om Sveriges möjligheter att påverka framtidens EU. Hur ska Sverige positionera sig de kommande åren? Vilken framtid och vilket Europa vill Sverige se? Vilken roll ska Sverige spela och hur ska vi se till at

https://www.cfe.lu.se/artikel/eu-days-lund-forma-eus-framtid-vad-ar-sveriges-roll - 2025-01-15

Av axel [dot] fegeant [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Axel Fégeant) - publicerad 1 december 2023 Symposiets avslutande panelsamtal Populismen har fått kraftig vind i seglen de senaste decennierna. I alla delar av världen ser vi framgångar för både höger- och vänsterrörelser med populistiska diskurser, och inte minst på den europeiska kontinenten. På Ekonomihögskolan i Lund anordnades den 21 november e

https://www.cfe.lu.se/artikel/populism-och-europeisk-arbetsratt - 2025-01-15

Av axel [dot] fegeant [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Axel Fégeant) - publicerad 5 december 2023 Centrum för europaforskning delar ut mindre resestipendier till studenter som har behov av fältstudier i samband med sitt uppsatsarbete (kandidat- eller masteruppsats) under vårterminen 2024. Uppsatsens tema ska ha en tydlig europeisk koppling. Studenter vid Lunds universitet som planerar att skriva kandid

https://www.cfe.lu.se/artikel/resebidrag-kandidat-eller-masteruppsats - 2025-01-15

Av erica [dot] talven [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Erica Talvén) - publicerad 21 december 2023 Den 21 november höll Jürgen Salay, senior expert på Europeiska kommissionens generaldirektorat för klimatpolitik (DG CLIMA), i ett seminarium för studenter om hur den europeiska gröna given påverkar kommissionens arbetssätt. Dessutom gav han råd till studenterna om karriärmöjligheter inom EU. EU:s klimatp

https://www.cfe.lu.se/artikel/att-arbeta-med-eus-klimatpolitik - 2025-01-15