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The public event Sustainability Week 2026 took place in April in Lund. The event was a success with about 4000 visitors attending a range of events. This year was the anniversary edition - 10th year of the event - and added to program was also a series of breakfast seminars. The seminars allowed for topical sustainability discussions looking back and looking forward on topics including energy, bio

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/fruitful-collaboration-among-university-departments-sustainability-week-2026 - 2026-07-05

Today, Jessika Richter from IIIEE participates in a live and open chat for the newspaper Sydsvenskan. The chat allows readers to discuss and reflect on different options to adopt a more climate-smart lifestyle. Do I have to stop eating meat? Does it matter how I live? How do I travel in an environmentally friendly way? Does my waste sorting make a difference? Is there money to be made? Living more

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researcher-sustainability-expert-sydsvenskan-newspaper - 2026-07-05

On Friday 8 May at 13:00 Karolina Södergren from the IIIEE defended her thesis "From the Inside Out. Municipal Strategies for Governing Industrial and Urban Symbiosis”. The defence was chaired IIIEE Senior Lecturer Yuliya Voytenko Palgan. Discussant was Lone Kørnøv – Professor at Aalborg University. Karolina’s work focuses on how municipalities engage with industrial and urban symbiosis - not only

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/karolina-sodergren-has-successfully-defended-her-doctoral-degree - 2026-07-05

The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University is once again hosting a cohort of students from the University of Virginia as part of the UVA in Sweden: Global Sustainability Consulting program, now in its 11th edition. The Institute is the students' base for the duration of the program, welcoming the group to Lund. Modeled after the long-running UVA i

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/uva-global-sustainability-consulting-students-return-iiiee-programs-11th-edition - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Associate Professor and IPCC Lead Author Luis Mundaca participated in high-level meetings during Climate Action Week 2016 in the United States, May 2-6. He first participated in the Universitas 21 Workshop ‘Informing Climate Action 2016’ at University of Maryland. This meeting brought together top scientists from Univ

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/associate-professor-luis-mundaca-high-level-meetings-during-climate-action-week-2016 - 2026-07-05

Last week the EMP program conducted their master's thesis defences. There were 29 defences during the week, followed by a few more in the early autumn. “Adopting Advanced Micropollutant Treatment”, “Downstream Due Diligence”, “Electrification through Swarm Grids”, “Pathways for Biodiversity Management in Food and Beverage Supply Chains” and “the EU WEEE Directive and Photovoltaic End-of-Life Manag

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/week-thesis-defences-successfully-completed - 2026-07-05

This year our students have been collaborating with the client companies Eurolink, Nordic Waterproofing, Repligen, Sydvatten, and Systembolaget to quickly develop well-founded analyses actionable recommendations. The projects were conducted as part of a course on sustainability consultancy, and intense but rewarding course at the end of the first year of the programme. Our students from the master

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/masters-students-deliver-valuable-sustainability-insights-client-companies - 2026-07-05

After two years of studies, master's students from Master's programme Environmental Management and Policy have now celebrated their completed studies in the traditional procession and ceremony. Batch 31 of the masters program Environmental Management and Policy graduated today on 12th of June. The ceremony started with a procession with flags; graduates and teachers joining in the symbolic walk ac

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/batch-31-has-graduated-emp-programme - 2026-07-05

On 18th of June, the Mespom graduation ceremony took place in Vienna, followed by celebrations of the completed Master Degree in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management. The students in the anniversary Batch 20 in the master’s program MESPOM (Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management) have now completed their studies. The program is a Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree, delivered by the 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/graduation-mespom-masters-students-anniversary-batch-20 - 2026-07-05

How can Europe decarbonize home heating while ensuring that transitions remain fair, inclusive and responsive to citizens' needs? In a new article published in Energy, Sustainability and Society, researchers from the JustHeat project examine how home heating transitions have unfolded in Finland, Romania, Sweden and the UK. The study introduces an integrated analytical framework that combines three

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-home-heating-transitions-across-europe-through-lenses-energy-democracy-energy - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 12 May, the IIIEE was represented by Håkan Rodhe, at the Branding Africa Conference. He met with several African ambassadors and discussed the African need for education, MOOCs, and Ethiopia's fast growth and ambition to be climate neutral by 2030.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/branding-africa-conference - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In the article "Uber lägger ner Pop i Sverige" published by NyTeknik, Oksana Mont, Professor in Sustainable Consumption and Production at the IIIEE, is commenting on the problems that may arise when the sharing economy is unregulated.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/oksana-mont-nyteknik - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Prof. Oksana Mont at the IIIEE is co-editor of a new edited book on welfare and its relationship to sustainability. Welfare is commonly conceptualized in socio-economic terms of equity, highlighting distributive issues within growing economies. While GDP, income growth and rising material standards of living are norma

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-book-sustainability-and-political-economy-welfare - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Seven shades of green: Exploring options for sustainable transitions A new Strategic Environmental Development (SED) report has been published by Master's students of the Environmental Management and Policy (EMP) programme at the IIIEE.Follow the link to access the full report: Seven shades of green: Exploring options

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-sed-report-masters-students - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Swedish wood: Innovative products for a circular economy Can Swedish wood be the answer to our future needs, from T-shirts to 10-storey apartment buildings? The challenge is not the technology, but how society can support the development of this market. It has the potential for creating both a sustainable and circular

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-ake-thidell - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. University of Virginia visits IIIEE with a Study Abroad programme for the third time. Sixteen University of Virginia students came to Lund to engage in a three week sustainability consulting projects. IIIEE is hosting the group for the third time while the students under the supervision of their mentors are working on

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/university-virginia-visit - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 26 May, the Romanian Ambassador to Sweden, H.E. Mr Iulian Buga and his delegation, are visiting the IIIEE to learn more about the activities of the IIIEE and to discuss the conditions and potentials of an expansion of the IIIEE outreach programme Swedish-Polish Sustainable Energy Platform, towards Romania.At the II

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/romanian-ambassador-sweden-visits-iiiee - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Assoc. Prof. Kes McCormick is a co-author on two chapters in a new book on urban experimentation. This new book explores how the concept or urban experimentation is being used to reshape practices of knowledge production in urban debates about resilience, climate change governance, and socio-technical transitions. Wit

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/experimental-city-new-book - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. While climate policies would have a beneficial effect for energy security in most countries, energy independence policies would not bring significant climate benefits.Ambitious policies to reduce energy imports would have little impact on climate change, and could be achieved much more cheaply than the climate mitigat

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/reducing-energy-imports-not-sufficient-tackle-climate-change-according-new-study-published-nature - 2026-07-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 14 June, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra) is visiting the IIIEE. Mistra's executive Director Åke Iverfeldt is introducing Mistra and Lena Neij, Director of the IIIEE is presenting the IIIEE and ongoing activities.During the morning, IIIEE researchers are presenting various resear

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mistra-visiting-iiiee - 2026-07-05