Published 28 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

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By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 10 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, a

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/land-identified-crucial-swedish-bioenergy-already-occupied-new-study-shows - 2025-01-16

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 10 December 2024 Lund University. Photo: Kennet Ruona. Lund University has achieved third place globally in the QS Sustainability Rankings, according to a press release issued by the university on Tuesday. The QS World University Rankings: Sustainability evaluates approximately 1,750 institutions worldwide on the

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Published 4 April 2017 Up-coming deadline for applying to become one of the next generation PhD students in ClimBEco Graduate Research School (2017–2019) will be May 5th. About ClimBEco on cec.lu.seOpen flyer about ClimBEco (PDF, 2.2 MB, new tab)

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Published 6 April 2017 Professor Kevin Anderson is one of the leading experts in the world on climate change and has written a number of articles on the urgency for action. On April 10 & 11 he is visiting Lund. On Monday April 10, Kevin Anderson will hold a lecture at the public library in Lund from 18.00 to 19.30: Mitigation – but how fast?Politicians and negotiators always seem to use yesterdays

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Published 5 May 2017 The first ever Nordic ICOS Symposium will be held in Copenhagen 29–31 August 2017. The first Nordic ICOS Symposium will be held in Copenhagen 29–31 August 2017. Deadline for abstracts is June 15th and for registration is August 1st 2017.  icos-denmark.dk

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Published 5 May 2017 Photo: Melburnian Guess your time in Lundaloppet 2017 and express your uncertainty in your running time in which way you want! After the race on May 13th and the actual running times are known, we will evaluate the performances of all predictions. The results will be presented in June, where we will hand out several awards.Guess your time in Lundaloppet 2017 and express your u

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Published 5 May 2017 Did you miss Ullrika’s Docent lecture? Don’t worry.Have a look at the slides on evidence.blogg.lu.se

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Published 10 May 2017 During last autumn and winter a team of researchers, PhD students and master students from Lund University and Leuphana University, Lüneburg, joined forces to undertake a student-driven quantitative review on temporal changes in ecosystem services. While the primary outcome of this collaboration will be a review to be published in an international scientific journal, the true

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Published 17 May 2017 BECC researcher Ullrika Sahlin has together with other researchers published a debate article in Svenska Dagbladet today (17/5) arguing that the WWF's advice not to eat the endangered indigenous Swedish crayfish Astacus astacus is confusing and should be changed. Read the article on svd.se (in Swedish)

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Published 15 June 2017 Photo: Sune Broman och Inger Ekström. Martin Green and Jens Rydell at the biology department, Lund University, have been awarded Skånes vindkraftspris 2017. Read the full article in Swedish on biologi.lu.se

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Published 19 June 2017 To what use is the Swedish rural programme and what can be done to increase its effects? The CEC researchers Juliana Dänhardt and Henrik Smith have contributed with two chapters to the newly published book “Så här ligger landet – tankar om landsbygdsprogram och landsbygdsutveckling” (in Swedish). The book has been published by the Swedish Board of Agriculture and consists of

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Published 22 June 2017 Yann Clough and Natascha Kljun. The Centre for Environmental and Climate Research has employed two new professors with research focus on human impact on environmental changes. Natascha Kljun and Yann Clough are new professors at CEC with the assignment to establish two research programmes of a high international standard in environmental science. From a starting point in sci

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Published 29 June 2017 Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, the Ecology Building. Photo: Kennet Ruona. During summer the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC) are announcing six new research positions within the Strategic Research Area Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate (BECC). Associate Senior University Lecturer in Ecological-Economic ModellingThe a

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Published 29 June 2017 Photo: Kennet Ruona. Ullrika Sahlin has been appointed Reader in Environmental Science at the Faculty of Science. Her research focus on the management of uncertainty in risk analysis and evidence-based decisionmaking. Have you ever missed a train or been stunned by a surprise you did not expect to happen? In retrospect, could you have done something to prevent bad things fro

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Published 29 June 2017 It has previously been unsure whether microplastics from playgrounds spread to fresh water and aquatic environments. Detailed studies of schoolyards in the city of Lomma now clearly show that microplastics end up in nearby Höje river. Rubber-based surfaces with the purpose to protect our children also threaten wildlife, both at sea and on land. Read more about the study on l

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/playgrounds-lomma-are-leaking-microplastics - 2025-01-16

Published 29 August 2017 Ullrika Sahlin, risk specialist at CEC, was awarded 15,000 Euros for her project “Gaming for better decisions under uncertainty” at the Climate-KIC Ideation Day II this Tuesday. Ullrikas project aims at developing a fun and educational game for decision-makers where they can develop skills in making decisions on climate-related issues with consideration of risk and uncerta

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Published 29 August 2017 Photo: Pixabay. Increasing cultivation of oilseed rape may have consequences for pollinators and wild plant pollination. A recently published study from CEC suggests that oilseed rape can affect later flowering plants. By providing pollinating insects with pollen and nectar, oilseed rape benefits short-tongued, generalist insect species. Long-tongued bumble bee species, sp

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Published 12 October 2017 In conjunction with the IPCC authors’ meeting in Malmö in October Sustainability Forum and Climate-KIC, both operating from the CEC, are co-organizers of three arrangements concerning climate change, climate policy and innovation as a solution. Climate change – from knowledge to politicsMonday, October 23 at 11, at Malmö Live, researchers from Lund University and Malmö Un

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Published 22 October 2017 Emilie Öström has written a thesis that increases our knowledge of how airborne particles, so-called aerosols, affect the climate. Globally, eight out of ten people live in environments where the amount of air pollution, in the form of small airborne particles, is above the guidelines set by the World Health Organization WHO. According to the WHO, atmospheric pollution ca

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/aerosol-particles-impact-climate - 2025-01-16