On 5 October the REES research programme (financed to a large extent by MISTRA), will have a kick-off in Söderköping, Sweden to start collaborating on Resource-Efficient and Effective Solutions, based on circular economy thinking (REES).Background:Mistra’s Board has decided to invest up to SEK 42 million, over a four-year period, in the REES (Resource-Efficient and Effective Solutions, based on ci

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/rees-research-programme-kick - 2025-09-13

Jenny Palm has been appointed to the position of Director and Lena Neij, who has temporarily been managing the institute in 2021, will go back to focusing on research. Jenny holds a role as Professor in Sustainable Urban Governance at the IIIEE since 2017 and will start in her new role February 1. Fredrik Andersson, Chairman of the IIIEE board and Professor at Lund University School of Economics a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/jenny-palm-new-director-iiiee - 2025-09-13

Unleashing Urban Innovation! A short film from the GUST project on urban living labs lead by the IIIEE.View the film by clicking here 

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IIIEE researcher Jessika Luth Richter has written a comment article published in Nature Electronics: "A circular economy approach is needed for electric vehicles". She explains that the full life cycle of electric vehicles needs to be considered in order to avoid creating resource issues while trying to achieve the necessary climate goals. She explains that the transition to electric vehicles is l

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/circular-economy-approach-needed-electric-vehicles - 2025-09-13

Every year, the world adds more renewable energy production capacity than the year before. But, looking historically, is this growth enough to achieve our climate targets? According to a recent publication in ‘Nature Energy’, the short answer is “no” – to meet the climate goals requires decades of growth in renewables at rates higher than those observed historically in most countries. In this epis

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-renewable-energy-adoption - 2025-09-13

The city of Malmö A perspective article published in the Frontiers in Sustainable Cities journal delves into key emerging questions on the mission for 100 climate neutral cities in Europe and approaches for inclusive participation of citizens and stakeholders. The purpose of this perspective article is to critically explore the launch of the mission for 100 climate neutral cities in Europe. An ove

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-launching-mission-100-climate-neutral-cities-europe-characteristics-critiques-and - 2025-09-13

The report analyses what Sweden can learn from other countries in order to increase the number of consumer repairs, support the repair sector, combat planned obsolescence, and stop unsold goods from being destroyed. European countries, regions and municipalities are experimenting with new policies to increase consumer repairs and destruction of unsold products. A new popular science report discuss

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-national-polices-increasing-consumer-repairs-and-avoiding-destruction-unsold-products - 2025-09-13

Jenny Palm. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg Jenny is part of the advisory board of Fossil Free Sweden’s strategy for energy efficiency. Fossil Free Sweden is a national initiative to make Sweden the first fossil free welfare nation of the world. The goal is to hand over an energy efficiency strategy to the new government in autumn 2022. Read more about Fossil Free Sweden on their website (link will

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/jenny-palm-member-advisory-board-fossil-free-sweden - 2025-09-13

On 16 & 17 February 2022, Lund University & U21 invited member universities to participate in a two-day online Education Innovation Symposium on the topic Teaching for Sustainability. The symposium included discussions, best practices and much more! Kes McCormick presented on the power and potentials of Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs through the example of the City Futures Academy – an onlin

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/kes-mccormick-presents-u21-educational-innovation-symposium-teaching-sustainability - 2025-09-13

Charlotte Leire and Kes McCormick are responsible for the MOOCs produced at the IIIEE. Photo: Jan Olsson IIIEE is taking the lead on open, month-long online courses, known as MOOCs. The investment in MOOCs has been quite a success. In recent years, every sixth student has stated that the online courses influenced them to apply for one of the IIIEE’s traditional courses or programmes. That MOOCs at

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/moocs-more-popular-during-pandemic - 2025-09-13

Artificial intelligence - AI - is being applied throughout society to a wide array of sustainability-related challenges, where it can help to effectivize and optimize systems to save both energy and resources. AI can also be used to analyse enormous amounts of data, faster than any human ever could. However, AI is very energy demanding, and comes with ethical concerns as it may require sensitive d

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-exploring-role-ai-sustainability - 2025-09-13

In a newly published article in Energy Policy, researchers from the IIIEE show the potential impacts that social norms can have if they were used to promote low-carbon mobility options. The transport sector is crucially important to limit global warming to 1.5ᵒC above pre-industrial levels. Its management is also important to reduce negative health impacts and the dependence on fossil fuels. Using

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/policy-experimentation-what-extent-can-use-social-norms-promote-low-carbon-mobility-options - 2025-09-13

On 1 March about 60 international colleagues, students, alumni and friends met in front of the IIIEE main entrance to show solidarity with Ukraine and our support for democracy and freedom. The participants took a picture with the Ukrainian flag, said some words of encouragement, shared links for donations to Ukraine and sang the Ukrainian anthem. The IIIEE community will continue supporting Ukrai

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-shows-solidarity-ukraine - 2025-09-13

Kes McCormick from the IIIEE moderated a grand seminar at Lund University on the IPCC report “Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability“ and, in the light of the recent report from the Swedish National Expert Council for Climate Adaptation. Presentations and discussions focused on the implications in the context of Sweden. “In others words what does it all mean for Sweden and in Sweden, but also what

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/grand-seminar-ipcc-report-climate-change-focus-impacts-adaptation-and-vulnerability - 2025-09-13

Boost your knowledge, understanding and skills for navigating urban transformations and creating sustainable cities and communities in countries across the world by taking a specialisation on the Coursera platform. This specialisation combines three Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). In this specialisation you will learn how to drive change in cities and communities towards sustainable, climate

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-launches-sustainable-cities-and-communities-specialisation-coursera-platform - 2025-09-13

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and the City of Malmö are partnering with the City Futures Academy and the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University to support the capacity building and lifelong learning of participants at the ICLEI World Congress. The City Futures Academy is an online learning community on sustainable cities with over 1

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lifelong-learning-amplifying-urban-transformation-capacities-new-partnership-iclei-and-city-malmo - 2025-09-13

Today, more than half of the world’s population live in cities, and by mid-century it is predicted that more than two-thirds of the world’s population will live in urban areas. This sees cities at the forefront of sustainability, needing to meet social needs within our ecological boundaries. An overarching guiding roadmap to consider sustainability is the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Go

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-podcast-episode-goals-targets-and-indicators-applying-sustainable-development-goals-cities - 2025-09-13

IIIEE researchers have contributed to a special issue in the Journal of Cleaner Production, dealing with the role of regulations and public policies as drivers for the Circular Economy. Carl Dalhammar was one of the guest editors of the issue, which also included two article contributions from IIIEE researchers Leonidas Milios and Jessika Luth Richter. One article co-authored by IIIEE researcher r

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-contribute-special-issue-regulating-circular-economy-gaps-insights-and-emerging - 2025-09-13

“We need to close the knowledge gap”, says Andrius Plepys, one of the IIIEE researchers in search of the reasons why energy-innovative lighting is still so rare in Swedish schools and hospitals. New business models and commercial opportunities in lighting:What stops LEDs from hitting the market? Energy efficient lighting as in LED is an essential technique in a sustainable society. In Sweden, LED

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-andrius-plepys - 2025-09-13

Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and her father Volodymyr Voitenko meet with Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström and Pro Vice-Chancellor Per Mickwitz. (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Our colleague Yuliya Voytenko Palgan is one of the driving spirits at the University who are doing everything they can to help Ukraine and the people who are fleeing. Since the war started, she has succeeded in helping her parents and a collea

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/yuliya-fighting-ukraine - 2025-09-13