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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The loss of animals, often due to unregulated or illegal hunting, has consequences for the carbon storage capacity of forests, yet this link is rarely mentioned in high-level climate policy discussions, according to a new study from Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies and the University of Copenhagen. Ma

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/hunting-jeopardizes-forest-carbon-storage-yet-overlooked-climate-mitigation-efforts - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. "We are seeing an increase in the intensity of extreme climate events, as well as growing inequality.  There is an urgency to look at the intersections between climate change and parameters such as class, gender, ethnicity and soco-economic background", says Director Emily Boyd. She is leading the four yearlong projec

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/project-dice-linking-climate-change-and-extreme-events-inequality - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On May 15, LUCSUS successfully kicked off our new mentorship programme for researchers. The purpose of the program is to offer leadership development to selected researchers of the strategic research area Sustainable Development, and to boost career development within academia. Gender, diversity and intersectionality

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-launches-new-mentorship-programme-researchers - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. From despair to transformation: evidence-backed ways to think and act on the nature crisis. Looking at the bigger pictureThe UN Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has just published a global assessment of the state of nature, ecosystems and nature's contributions to people. Compi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-research-biodiversity-comment-ipbes-global-assessment-report - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Improved and sustainable Menstrual Health Management has great impact on several of the Sustainable Development Goals, including: Good health and well-being, Gender equality, Quality education, Sustainable cities and communities, and Clean water and sanitation. On the 28th of May we join the commemoration of the Menst

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/menstrual-hygiene-day-2019-itstimeforaction - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS researchers are developing an Urban Living Lab approach to adress sustainability in the food, water, energy nexus through the case of craft beer sector in Sweden (Scania). The LUCSUS researchers, Barry Ness, Darin Wahl and Christine Wamsler are working in a large transdisciplinary research project called GLOCUL

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/promoting-sustainability-swedish-craft-beer-sector-through-urban-living-labs - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At this year's Almedalen, LUCSUS researchers will discuss climate variability and its impact on water, sustainable land use, flying, and the Greta effect on today's youth. Here is the full list of LUCSUS related events taking place in Visby, Gotland. Almedalen is a week long democratic meeting place for seminars and d

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-almedalen - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In June, LUCSUS researchers Genesis Yengoh, Sara Gabrielsson and Ann Åkerman kicked off the capacity building programme Land is Life. During two intense weeks, 13 future leaders from Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda participated in i lecturers, field trips, group work and discussions in Kisumu, Kenya.  The capacity

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-kicked-new-capacity-building-programme-ecosystem-and-biodiversity-kenya - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A complex web of legislation, a lack of awareness about the benefits of seagrass meadows, and powerful interests all combine to make the governance, protection and maintainance of seagrass meadows difficult according to new research from LUCSUS. Meanwhile segrasses have a hugely important ecological and economic role

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/segrasses-have-hugely-important-ecological-and-economic-role-new-research-publication - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Instead of betting big on bioenergy, governments need to focus on the hard medicine of cutting fossil fuel use. There is no shortcut to climate change mitigation, says Lennart Olsson, professor at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies and lead author of the IPCC special report on Climate Change and Land, i

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/bioenergy-plantations-could-fight-climate-change-threaten-food-crops-un-panel-warns - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. LUCSUS researchers present new guidelines and principles on how to improve climate change adaptation collaboration between, and for, citizens and municipalities. Municipalities and their residents are facing increasing challenges as a result of a changing climate. Floods, heat waves and storms are expected to increase

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/guidelines-and-principles-improved-city-citizen-cooperation-climate-change-adaptation - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Better communication between different waste actors is paramount”. LUCSUS researchers present policy brief on how to address challenges linked to urban solid waste management in Kisumu, Kenya. The collection and handling of municipal solid waste pose a significant challenge in urban Kisumu. The demand for more sustai

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/four-ways-address-challenges-urban-solid-waste-new-policy-brief-developed-city-kisumu-kenya - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Today, on August 21, LUCSUS kicked off its new mentorship programme for researchers with a first meeting between the programme leader Katarina Billing and the mentors.  During the day the mentors got a crash course in mentoring and opportunity to network with some of the other mentors. They also met program staff and

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/kick-lucsus-new-mentorship-programme - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate. LUCSUS researcher and Amazon expert, Torsten Krause, explains how they started and what can we do about it. Read the full article with Torsten Krause in Swedish hereMånga orsaker bakom förstörelsen av Amazonas Selected media articles:Brändernas effekter når långt bort

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/torsten-krause-comments-amazon-fires - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The small town, Akureyri, in northern Iceland has gone almost CO2-neutral. LUCSUS vising researcher Henner Busch, and LUMES Alumni (Batch 19) Rakel Kristjandottir, went there to find out how they did it and what we can learn from them. Nowadays cities are quite unsustainable places. They consume a lot of the world’s r

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-can-world-can-learn-small-town-iceland - 2026-05-05

Lena Ohlsson is a Sample Service Coordinator at Region Skåne’s Biobank, guiding researchers through the process of starting a sample collection in a biobank or using samples from other biobanks across Sweden. Region Skåne’s Biobank is part of Biobank Sweden, which is Sweden’s national infrastructure for biobanking. The infrastructure aims to provide Sweden with the best conditions for initiating a

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/sample-service-coordinator-guides-our-researchers-through-biobanking-processes - 2026-05-05

During spring, students at the Faculty had the opportunity to share their thoughts and experiences on mental health through creative activities at Forum Medicum. The response has been very positive. – There was great commitment and a clear need from the students, which has confirmed how important this work is. The reception has been very positive, and several of the activities have been described

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/creativity-forum-medicum-mental-health-focus - 2026-05-05

The University Board needs a new teaching staff representative due to a retirement. As a staff member, you now have the opportunity to propose a colleague to the Electoral College, which is responsible for the nomination. The nomination period is from 3 September to 22 September. One of the three teaching staff representatives on the University Board, Lars Dahlin, is retiring and his place on the

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/propose-new-teaching-staff-representative-university-board-election - 2026-05-05

On September 23–24, leading voices from Sweden and Europe will once again gather in Lund for the fifth edition of EU Days. This year's keynote speakers include EU Minister Jessica Rosencrantz and Carl Bildt, with Maria Wetterstrand as moderator. EU Days Lund, with Lund University as one of the organisers, is the main Swedish annual EU forum gathering around 500 Swedish and international high-level

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/follow-eu-days-lund-2025-online-main-swedish-annual-eu-forum - 2026-05-05

Welcome to a film screening followed by a panel discussion on stigma, suicide and mental illness. Please register by 19 September. The purpose of the film ‘Stigma - affects us all’ is to inform about mental illness, what stigma is and what consequences it has for individuals and society. The film addresses what we know about stigma today, what we can learn more about and why it is important that w

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/film-forum-medicum-stigma-affects-us-all - 2026-05-05