By charlotte [dot] leire [at] iiiee [dot] lu [dot] se (Charlotte Leire) - published 12 March 2025 Together with Energikontoret Syd, the IIIEE together have received funding from Region Skåne to develop an energy course for professionals at municipalities and at the region in Skåne. The aim with the course is to contribute to an acceleration of Skåne’s energy transition.  The project has held its f

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/workshop-course-practitioners-accelerate-energy-transition-skane - 2025-05-01

Published 18 March 2025 In April 2025, we are hosting 500+ researchers and practitioners working with sustainable consumption for SCORAI Europe 2025 in Lund (and online). The program promises 50 scientific sessions and 20 workshops with the latest knowledge in 'Mainstreaming Sustainable Consumption' as well as lively discussions about what comes next. The SCORAI Europe Conference 2025 will be orga

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/upcoming-conference-mainstreaming-sustainable-consumption - 2025-05-01

Published 25 March 2025 IIIEE researchers Andrius Plepys, Marianne Ekdahl, Jessika Richter and Oksana Mont. Photo: Philipp Montenegro What is a more sustainable lifestyle, and what are strategies and motivations for living within the 1.5-degree target? This question is addressed and discussed among experts in a new episode of the current season in the IIIEE Podcast series "Advancing Sustainable So

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/what-more-sustainable-lifestyle-new-podcast-episode - 2025-05-01

Published 27 March 2025 Photo: Philipp Montenegro Today, PhD-student Anna-Riikka Kojonsaari nailed her freshly produced doctoral thesis publication. “Spikning” (Swedish for nailing) is ritual by which the thesis is nailed on the wall - the purpose being to allow the public and the audience to read the thesis before the public defence. The notification "spikning" in Swedish) stems from the traditio

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/spikning-doctoral-thesis-anna-riikka-kojonsaari - 2025-05-01

Published 7 April 2025 A recent debate article published in the newspaper Aftonbladet calls for urgent political action to reduce consumption-related emissions. The article published in Aftonbladet is written by fourteen Swedish researchers* in sustainable consumption. It calls for urgent political action to reduce consumption-related emissions. The main argument is that technological solutions an

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urgent-political-action-required-reduce-consumption-related-emissions - 2025-05-01

Published 8 April 2025 Today on 8th April, 500 leading researchers gather in Lund for the world’s largest conference on sustainable consumption research, SCORAI 2025. The conference is an excellent opportunity to remind of these scientists’ single most important recommendation: within the research community, there is currently a growing consensus that our consumption must not only be greener, our

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/scorai-conference-gives-full-attention-consumption-issues - 2025-05-01

Published 14 April 2025 IIIEE student Meijing He of EMP Batch 30 has unexpectedly passed away. She will be remembered as an engaged, lively, self-confident and creative member of our IIIEE community. It is with great sadness that we share the news that Meijing He, a beloved student at the IIIEE, has passed away. Meijing will be remembered as kind and dedicated and as someone who brought warmth and

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/memory-meijing-he - 2025-05-01

Published 23 April 2025 The EU has set ambitious goals for reducing emissions and cutting energy use in buildings, but when it comes to everyday renovation projects, energy efficiency still struggles to gain ground.  A recent article by Katharina Reindl, Georgios Pardalis, and Jenny Palm explored why, by taking a closer look at how energy-related decisions are actually made during the early planni

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/why-energy-efficiency-still-struggles-take-center-stage-building-renovations - 2025-05-01

Published 21 March 2016 Read the article in Lund University Magazine (LUM), "Researchers in exile meet in visionary workshops", about  IIIEE researcher Tareq Emtairah who organises visionary workshops to sketch out an outline for a sustainable future.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/tareq-emtairah-organising-visionary-workshops-outline-future-syria - 2025-05-01

Published 22 March 2016 A number of countries in the Middle East will be under water stress by 2040. Photo: Oliver Laumann Today is world water day, 22 March, and in connection to this day IIIEE researcher Tareq Emtairah answers five questions about water use efficiency and practices in the Middle East. IIIEE researcher Tareq Emtairah Tareq Emtairah is a researcher in renewable energy and energy e

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/worldwater-day-iiiee-researcher-tareq-emtairah-answers-five-questions-about-water-and-middle-east - 2025-05-01

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 4 December 2023 Emil Andersson uses computational models to investigate cell reprogramming and how tumour cells can be better recognised using machine learning. Photo: Sara Håkansson What if ordinary skin cells could be effectively reprogrammed to become brain cells and help with diseases like Alzheimer's? And what if

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/one-step-closer-towards-improving-cancer-surgery-and-reprogramming-cells - 2025-05-01

By anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - published 4 December 2023 Bumblebees are a key wild and commercial pollinator. Yet commonly used farmland pesticides continue to harm bumblebees. Photo: Theresia Krausl A new study from Lund confirms that pesticides commonly used in farmland significantly harm bumblebees. Data from 106 sites across eight European countries sh

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/commonly-used-pesticides-are-still-harming-pollinators - 2025-05-01

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 5 December 2023 Congratulations on the funding for the research infrastructure ICOS, Natascha Kljun, Scientific Principle Investigator of the Lund University ICOS stations! ICOS Sweden has been awarded a grant of 43.8 million SEK from VR to operate 10 stations for a period of three years. “Thank you! Yes, these a

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/congratulations-icos - 2025-05-01

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 6 December 2023 Micaela Mafla-Endara and one of her 'hotels' for soil organisms. Photo: Anna Maria Erling Remnants of plastic left by humans can now be found practically everywhere in nature – in waterways, within animals, and even amidst the clouds. In her thesis, Micaela Mafla-Endara examined how nanoplastics t

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/nanoplastics-influence-microbial-activity-soil - 2025-05-01

By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 11 December 2023 A big congratulations to professor Henrik Smith on receiving the Rosén Linnaeus Prize in Zoology from The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund. The Rosén Linnaeus Prize in Botany and Zoology has been awarded every three years since 1935 to Swedish researchers whom the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund conside

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/professor-henrik-smith-receives-rosen-linnaeus-prize-zoology - 2025-05-01

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 18 December 2023 COP 28 participants in Dubai. Photo: COP28/Christophe Viseux A comprehensive decision has been negotiated during the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. The agreement, which calls for a tripling of renewable energy, energy efficiency and the transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, was finali

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/global-climate-deal-renewables-and-net-zero-energy-systems - 2025-05-01

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 10 January 2024 Katarina Hedlund (right) is the new Director of CEC after Per Persson (left). Katarina Hedlund is the new Director of CEC after Per Persson, who left at the turn of the year. Per Persson has moved on to the role of Dean of the Faculty of Science at Lund University. Katarina Hedlund, professor at t

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/katarina-hedlund-new-director-cec - 2025-05-01

Published 29 January 2024 On 15-17 May, the second edition of the Swedish Climate Symposium will take place in Norrköping. The symposium offers is a unique opportunity for scholars and societal actors to seek greater scientific understanding of climate change and its consequences for the environment and society. David Wårlind is part of the steering group for the symposium, and we asked him three

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/three-questions-david-warlind-about-swedish-climate-symposium - 2025-05-01

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 30 January 2024 Researcher Hakim Abdi. Photo: Private. With the aid of two satellites and machine learning, researcher Hakim Abdi is mapping the composition of tree species in Swedish forests down to the individual stands. Through the creation of a method capable of generating annual maps of tree diversity, his a

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forest-analysis-through-satellite-data-and-machine-learning - 2025-05-01

Published 1 February 2024 Monocultures and the simplification of the agricultural landscape in the last century may have resulted in the disadvantage of specialized pollinators. Photo: Anna Persson An evolutionary perspective should be taken into account to ensure long-term crop pollination. This is the conclusion of an article published by BECC and CEC-affiliated researchers at Lund University. T

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/effects-landscape-change-evolution-pollinators - 2025-05-01