Published 9 March 2018 During the period 27 February – 9 March the IIIEE had a Chinese delegation of four people from the Beijing Municipality visiting the institute in order to exchange experience of sustainable urban planning as well as low-carbon management methods, waste disposal, green traffic planning and water treatment.They were visiting the IIIEE seeking advise on how to green their curre

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/beijing-municipality-visits-iiiee - 2025-03-14

Published 26 March 2018 On 7 March 2018, IIIEE researchers Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Kes McCormick, Charlotte Leire and Jagdeep Singh together with representatives from Malmö City Oscar Pelin and Viktoria Hoffman, and Bike Kitchen leader Jesper Berseus explored sharing practices in Malmö through a mobile lab. The team met with sharing economy enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and city representatives, and

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mobile-lab-sharing-practices-malmo - 2025-03-14

Published 26 March 2018 How could we accelerate transformations towards more sustainable societies and transfer existing knowledge into action? A new article by IIIEE alumna Mascha Menny, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan and Kes McCormick “Urban Living Labs and the Role of Users in Co-creation” is now available online with an open access. The article examines different levels of user participation in urban

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/special-issue-labs-real-world-advancing-transdisciplinarity-and-transformations - 2025-03-14

Published 4 April 2018 Prof. Nancy Bocken took part in the panel discussion on how to bring business and academia closer together to address the SDGs. Building on the 16th ABIS Colloquium, the 2018 Knowledge Into Action Forum in Brussels was an answer to the call from the business community to academia to help develop competitive and innovative business models for the United Nations' Sustainabilit

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/abis-colloquium-2018 - 2025-03-14

Published 18 April 2018 A national program for the sharing economy in cities Sharing Cities Sweden will organize a launch event on 23 April 2018 as part of Sustainability Week at Lund University. The event will bring together the test-beds, national node and partners to present the early stages and ambitions for Sharing Cities Sweden.Sharing Cities SwedenSharing Cities Sweden aims to put Sweden on

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Published 19 April 2018 Luis Mundaca, from the IIIEE, joins the 4th Lead Author Meeting of the ‘IPCC Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5⁰C above Pre-industrial Levels’ Luis Mundaca has participated in the 4th Lead Author Meeting of the ‘IPCC Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5⁰C above Pre-industrial Levels’. The meeting took place in Gaborone, Botswana (April

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Published 19 April 2018 Official launch of the program on 23 April Next week on 23 April, the official launch of the Sharing Cities Sweden (SCS) program will take place at the IIIEE. There will be over 100 people at the Institute and in the aula for presentations. The 4 partner cities, Stockholm, Malmö, Gothenburg and Umeå will present, along with the co-founder of the Sharing Cities Alliance, and

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sharing-cities-sweden-media-and-tv - 2025-03-14

Published 26 April 2018 In the image from left to right: Birgitte Hoffman, Aalborg University, Björn Wickenberg, IIIEE/LU, Caroline Fredriksson, LTH/LU, Helena Hanson, CEC/LU, Karolina Skog, Swedish Minister for the Environment, Nina Steiner, VA Syd Photo: Henrik Aspegren Seminar as part of the Lund University Sustainability Week 2018 Researcher Björn Wickenberg at the IIIEE co-moderated a seminar

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/climate-adaptation-green-and-dense-city - 2025-03-14

Published 8 May 2018 New book release All cities face a pressing challenge – how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion while achieving environmental sustainability? In response, new collaborations are emerging in the form of urban living labs – sites devised to design, test and learn from social and technical innovation in real time. The aim of this book is to examine, inform an

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urban-living-labs-experimenting-city-futures - 2025-03-14

Published 16 May 2018 Preventing Environmental Damage from Products: An Analysis of the Policy and Regulatory Framework in Europe Several IIIEE researchers have contributed to a new book form Cambridge University Press: ‘Preventing Environmental Damage from Products. An Analysis of the Policy and Regulatory Framework in Europe’. It is the first comprehensive textbook on product policy and law in E

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-book-contributions-iiiee-researchers - 2025-03-14

Published 16 May 2018 IIIEE researcher Carl Dalhammar will take part in the workshop ‘Law and policy as barriers and driving forces for sustainable energy’ at the Nordic Clean Energy week. At the workshop, Danisj and Swedish lawyers will discuss how law acts as barrier as well as an enabler for sustainable energy solutions. The event is open to everyone.For more information, click here

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researcher-carl-dalhammar-discusses-law-and-policy-barriers-and-driving-forces-sustainable - 2025-03-14

Published 18 May 2018 Professor Lena Neij, Director of the IIIEE The 9th Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM9) and the 3rd Mission Innovation Ministerial (MI-3) are co-hosted by the European Commission together with Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Nordic Council of Ministers and take place back-to-back in the cities of Copenhagen and Malmö respectively, on May 22–24, 2018. There will be a week-

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Published 18 May 2018 Scientific Workshop on 21 May On May 23-24, the Clean Energy Ministerial meeting and the Mission Innovation meeting will be held in Malmö/Copenhagen. These meetings gather energy ministers and other high-level delegates from the 24 member countries and the European Union, and provide an opportunity to leverage high-level political will and private sector leadership to drive c

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/transition-low-carbon-society - 2025-03-14

Published 23 May 2018 What makes for a successful transition to a low-carbon energy system? Local involvement, perceived fairness and information sharing, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. The researchers studied two cases, one in Samsø (Denmark) and one in Feldheim (Germany) of successful implementation of low-carbon energy systems. Samsø is the world’s first 100% renewabl

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-local-communities-can-transition-sustainable-energy-systems - 2025-03-14

Published 23 May 2018 "Experimentation and Slow Consumption: Two Key Strategies in the Transition to a Circular Economy" On 22 May, Nancy Bocken Professor at the IIIEE, gave a keynote speech at the Gordon Research Conference in Industrial Ecology held in Switzerland. The title of the speech was "Experimentation and Slow Consumption: Two Key Strategies in the Transition to a Circular Economy”.Abstr

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/nancy-bocken-keynote-speaker-gordon-research-conference-industrial-ecology - 2025-03-14

Published 23 May 2018 "Small-scale solar electricity in buildings - power for change in energy systems and everyday life" Prof. Jenny Palm at the IIIEE has reported the results from the project “Small-scale solar electricity in buildings – power for change in energy systems and everyday life” The research was done in collaboration with Uppsala University and Linköping University and it was funded

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/results-finalized-research-project-solar-electricity-buildings - 2025-03-14

Published 25 May 2018 IIIEE researcher Philip Peck Photo: Sara Bernstrup Nilsson Philip Peck presents during the Sustainability Week 2018. On 24 April, IIIEE researcher Philip Peck gave a presentation during the Sustainability Week 2018 at Lund University. His presentation had the title Root causes or 'headlines'? The devil lies in the supply chains. The presentation was given during the workshop

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/root-causes-or-headlines-devil-lies-supply-chains - 2025-03-14

Published 29 May 2018 New study on how local government (cities), addresses GHG-A in their Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAP). IIIEE researcher Nora Smedby has co-published a new study on Local governance of greenhouse gas emissions from air travel.ABSTRACTGlobal greenhouse gas emissions from air travel (GHG-A) are on the rise, and projections point towards a rapid growth in the coming decades

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/local-governance-greenhouse-gas-emissions-air-travel - 2025-03-14

Published 1 June 2018 What makes for a successful transition to a low-carbon energy system? Perceived fairness of various processes identified as pre-condition for the legitimacy of outcomes, according to new research from the IIIEE and LUCSUS. Luis Mundaca together with alumna Sophie Schwer at the IIIEE and Henner Busch from LUCSUS recently published a research article titled ‘Successful’ low-car

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-research-article-low-carbon-energy-transitions-attracts-media-attention - 2025-03-14

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

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/book-release-urban-living-labs-experimenting-city-futures - 2025-03-14