Published 5 June 2018 Over 50% of the global population lives in cities, and those cities all share the same pressing challenge: how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion in a sustainable way? One way of finding answers to that question is urban living labs, a type of testbed where social and technical innovations are tested in real time in an urban setting.“Urban living labs ar

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Published 5 June 2018 SAVE THE DATE - 11 OCTOBER 2018! On 11 October 2018, the IIIEE is organizing a City Futures conference in Lund, Sweden. The aim is to bring together academia, municipalities and regional actors within business and industry to discuss how to strengthen the collaboration between science and policy for sustainable solutions. Keynote speakers are Dr. Cathy Oke, Knowledge Broker a

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Published 12 June 2018 Lunds kommun stärker det klimatpolitiska arbetet genom att som första kommun i landet inrätta ett eget klimatpolitiskt råd. Till rådet föreslås experter med tvärvetenskaplig kompetens från Lunds universitet och SLU. Lunds kommun följer den nationella strategin med ett klimatpolitiskt råd och inrättar en motsvarighet på lokal nivå– Rådets uppdrag är att utvärdera kommunens ar

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Published 23 August 2018 A new report on the possibilities and limitations of socio-economic analyses has been published by the Swedish Scientific Council for Sustainable Development. The report has been handed over to the Minister for the Environment, Karolina Skog.Lena Neij at the IIIEE is a member of the Swedish Scientific Council for Sustainable Development and a co-author of the report on soc

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Published 24 August 2018 A timely special issue that explores policies and sectoral measures to keep the 1.5 °C target within reach Luis Mundaca at the IIIEE together with colleagues from Central European University and University of East Anglia have just concluded the special issue on Demand-side approaches for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C, published in Energy Efficiency.  The special issues

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Published 7 September 2018 Photo from Shutterstock New article by IIIEE researchers Yuliya Voytenko and Kes McCormick, that develops a typology of urban living labs through a comparative analysis of 40 examples in Europe. The recent upsurge of interest in the experimental city as an arena within and through which urban sustainability is governed marks not only the emergence of the proliferation of

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Published 17 September 2018 Photo: Shutterstock Article in Dagens Nyheter On 11 September, Dagens Nyheter published an article on the recent EU environmental committee proposal to have 40 % of all cars be run on electricity or to be hybrids by 2030. Professor Luis Mundaca at the IIIEE gave his opinion on the matter.Link to article here (In Swedish only)

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Published 26 September 2018 PhD candidate Jessika Luth Richter helps explore the critical materials in our electronics with the Restart Project as part of their podcast series. IIIEE PhD candidate Jessika Luth Richter is interviewed for a podcast on the topic of ‘critical’ materials that are found in our electronics. She talks about what makes materials ‘critical’, their global supplies, their min

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Published 1 October 2018 Students of the the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy are presenting their Master's theses. From Monday 1 October to 4 October (including one thesis on 28 September) is thesis defence week at the IIIEE. Students of the the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy are presenting their Master's theses. The opponents are people from ac

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Published 3 October 2018 Photo: Maarit Kytöharju It has now been decided that Per Mickwitz will be the new Director of the IIIEE, during the period of 2019-2021. He will be employed as professor of environmental policy and he will start his position at the IIIEE on 1 January 2019.Per Mickwitz is currently a research professor at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), his current employer, where

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Published 5 October 2018 Students of the the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy are graduating. On 5 October 2018, the annual Graduation Day at the IIIEE takes place. This year it is batch 23 who graduates from the Master's programme in environmental management and policy (EMP programme) at the IIIEE.If you have any questions regarding graduation day, please contact Håkan Ro

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Published 8 October 2018 Luis Mundaca, Lead author of the IPCC Special Report and Summary for Policymakers, and Professor of Policy Analysis at the IIIEE at Lund University, comments on the report. The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC was approved by the IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) on Saturday in Incheon, Republic of Korea. It will be a key scientific input into t

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Published 24 October 2018 Sustainable city futures need experimentation and innovation developed through collaboration between academia and social actors.On Thursday 11 October 2018, the IIIEE organized a City Futures Conference series in Lund, Sweden. The aim was to bring together academia, municipalities and regional actors within business and industry to discuss how to strengthen the collaborat

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Published 25 October 2018 IIIEE researcher Luis Mundaca Photo: Sara Bernstrup Nilsson Efforts to combat climate change tend to focus on supply-side changes, such as shifting to renewable or cleaner energy. In a Special Issue in the Energy Efficiency Journal that follows the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ˚C, researchers argue that demand-side approaches can play a crucial role given

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Published 12 November 2018 Focusing on Circular Economy 12 November 2018 MOOCWe are proud to present a new MOOC in the Greening the Economy series:Circular Economy - Sustainable Materials Management!This free, on-line course looks at where important materials in products we use every day come from and how these materials can be used more efficiently, longer, and in closed loops.The MOOC involves e

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Published 15 November 2018 On 14 November, the winners of the yearly award "Årets framtidsbyggare" was announced during a ceremony at Skissernas museum. The yearly award "Årets framtidsbyggare" is a prize (1.2 million SEK) with three categories: 1) "Årets innovatör" (The innovator of the year, 750 000 SEK), 2) "Årets opinionsbildare" (The opinion-former of the year), 3) "Årets talang" (The talent

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Published 19 November 2018 Kes McCormick, Lucie Zvolska and Yuliya Voytenko Palgan Yuliya Voytenko, Lucie Zvolska and Kes McCormick are in Barcelona attending the Smart City Expo World Congress, SCEWC, (where some 20,000 people are gathering to talk about smart cities of the future) and the Sharing Cities Summit, which is the leading event for the sharing economy in cities. Sharing Cities Sweden,

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Published 26 November 2018 Photo: Shutterstock "Sweden needs to deal with the effects of consumption" Professor Oksana Mont at the IIIEE, along with several other experts, recently co-authored an opinion piece on the effects of consumption in Svenska Dagbladet.The article especially highlights the need for powerful politics to limit consumption and its effects on our climate.    Link to full artic

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Published 26 November 2018 Photo: Maarit Kytöharju During the period of 2019-2021. Per Mickwitz will be the new Director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), during the period of 2019-2021. Per Mickwitz is currently the Research Director of the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), where he is also a research professor.  As of 1 January 2019, he will be Di

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Published 29 November 2018 Photo: Håkan Röjder We stand with Central European University, CEU!We have had 15 years of fruitful collaboration with CEU, notably on our joint MESPOM master programme where we have had a steady flow of creative talent from all over the world.CEU is important. In so many ways, and to so many people.We will continue to support CEU.And look forward to do more great things

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