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The 21st of March we conducted a traditional nailing ceremony as the departments doctoral student Réka Tölg nailed her doctors thesis ”The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings”. Réka is defending her thesis during a dissertation the 11th of April. In her dissertation "The (im)possibilities of circular con

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/reka-tolg-nailed-her-dissertation - 2026-07-23

On 11 April, Réka Tölg defended her doctoral thesis ‘The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings’. The thesis examines how circular consumption actually happens in everyday life, and what obstacles arise in an economy that is fundamentally designed to promote linear consumption. The circular economy is often

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/how-does-consumption-become-circular-linear-world-new-doctoral-thesis-shows-opportunities-and - 2026-07-23

During Sustainability Week at Lund University, students from the Service Management and Strategic Communication master programmes organized a panel discussion during Sustainability Week at Campus Helsingborg, exploring the textile industry’s shift towards circular economy practices. Marie Ledendal, Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Communication and Réka Tölg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Horiz

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/panel-discussion-textile-industry-during-sustainability-week - 2026-07-23

This year's excursion for the students at the department specialising in tourism offered both sunshine and memorable experiences. For the second year in a row, both bachelor and master students participated, which created a wonderful dynamic and strengthened the community between the programmes. The trip went to Helsingborg's twin town Pärnu in Estonia, with a stop in the capital Tallinn - a city

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/sun-studies-and-student-community-field-trip-estonia - 2026-07-23

On Friday 23 May, the university's major ceremony, the doctoral conferment, took place. During the ceremony in Lund Cathedral, the 239 doctors who have completed their doctoral studies and defended a doctoral thesis at Lund University over the past year, including some from the Department of Service Studies, were awarded their doctorates. At Friday's ceremony, the newly awarded doctorates marched

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/festive-and-solemn-universitys-doctoral-conferment - 2026-07-23

The Campus Helsingborg International Student Career Programme, launched in the spring of 2025, consists of a series of events specifically designed to equip international students with the tools needed to navigate the Swedish labour market, apply for jobs and internships, visit local companies, and build valuable professional networks. The programme is organised in collaboration between the Depart

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/closing-international-student-career-programme-semester-event-internships - 2026-07-23

On 27 May 2025, Formas announced the results for Explore— a highly competitive open call that supports ground-breaking sustainability research. This year, a mere 83 out of 1,117 submitted projects received funding, representing a success rate of just 7 %. One of these successful projects is IDLE – Investigating Doing Less in Everyday Life, led by associate professor Tullia Jack from Lund Universit

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/idleness-vice-or-virtue-tullia-jack-receives-formas-explore-funding-idle-project - 2026-07-23

On the 12th of June, the graduation ceremony for our Master's students was arranged by the Faculty of Social Sciences at the AF-Borgen’s Stora Salen. During the ceremony, below thesis was awarded the honorary award from the department for her excellent work. The ceremony began with live music and a speech by student Carolina Sandoval Marmolejo. Following that, Elin Bommenel, the program director o

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/graduation-ceremony-our-masters-students-0 - 2026-07-23

In February, ClimBEco PhD students gathered for our annual winter meeting. For the second consecutive year – but hopefully for the last time – the meeting was held digitally due to pandemic restrictions, with a small lunch gathering at the conclusion. During this two-day event, participants presented their PhD research to each other in an interdisciplinary setting. They had the option of sharing e

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/climbeco-winter-meeting-2022-summary - 2026-07-23

Where, how often, and how much it is going to rain or snow in the future is difficult to predict. Anders Ahlström studies the importance of precipitation for ecosystems on Earth – and contributes with new knowledge in a complex and fraught area. Across the world, researchers are in agreement on future warming patterns. However, future precipitation is more difficult to predict, and climate models

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/importance-precipitation-ecosystems-earth - 2026-07-23

Thomas Pugh, principal investigator at BECC and researcher at MERGE, is one of the researchers behind a new study that is published in Science. In the study, the researchers compared results from three major modeling approaches that provide information on different aspects of risk on the impact of climate change on forests in the 21st century. Forests harbor enormous biodiversity and are a major c

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/climate-risk-analysis-earths-forests-21st-century - 2026-07-23

China has suffered an extreme heat wave this summer and the Yangtze River has been completely dried up in parts. This is the topic of a new episode of the Swedish podcast Kinapodden with MERGE-researcher Deliang Chen as one of the guests. China has suffered an extreme heat wave this summer. The Yangtze River has been completely dried up in parts, resulting in an acute energy shortage. In a new epi

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-researcher-deliang-chen-guests-kinapodden-talk-about-drought-along-yangtze-river - 2026-07-23

Effects of a warmer Arctic are not only negative for the climate, according to a new thesis from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University, Sweden. Modelling showed that moving the tree line upwards could increase carbon storage, as trees sequester more carbon in their biomass than tundra plants. But the results are uncertain. The Arctic – the area north of the Arctic Cir

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/complex-consequences-warmer-arctic - 2026-07-23

After this summer meeting, one cannot understate the importance of and unmistakeable delight in meeting in-person after a long, pandemic-sized hiatus. On the shores of the Baltic Sea, in the crisp early autumn of Skåne, a group of 28 ClimBEco PhD students spent two nights and two days getting to know one another and learning about the topic of sustainable coastal environments. Hosted by the Simris

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/reflections-climbeco-summer-meeting-2022 - 2026-07-23

The UN’s annual climate change conference takes place this year in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Over the course of two weeks, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to discuss how to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and contribute to the climate transition. At this year’s COP, the focus will be on topics such as climate finance, loss and damage, adaptation to climate change a

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-conference-cop27-topics-agenda - 2026-07-23

Just before the start of COP27, IPCC released a popular science version of its latest report on climate change. Deliang Chen, professor at MERGE and BECC, is one of the authors and comments the summary, which is also available for download. To make science on climate change and its effects more available to all, IPCC has released a popular science version of its latest report written in a plain la

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/ipcc-summary-all - 2026-07-23

Swedish, previously uncut forests have been converted to plantations at a steady rate since 2003. In a new study, MERGE-researcher Anders Ahlström and his research team find that old forests have been cut and lost by ∼1.4% per year since 2003, and at this rate they will disappear by the 2070s. Natural ecosystems that have experienced limited direct human impact are threatened by land use change. O

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/old-unprotected-forests-might-disappear-2070s-sweden - 2026-07-23

MERGE is one of the partners in CLIMB-FOREST - a new Horizon Europe project that will investigate how the climate is affected by different ways of managing the forest. There is a lot of expertise in each individual country, but there is no coordinated overview of Europe’s forests and forest health. A major new EU project, CLIMB-FOREST, will create an overview of European forests and forestry over

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/how-climate-affected-forest-management-new-project-help-guide-european-forestry - 2026-07-23

Tipping elements are regions that are vulnerable to climate change and capable of sudden drastic changes. However, it is not well understood to what degree tipping of one element in the system can influence other tipping elements. In this study, the researchers establish long-distance connections (teleconnections) between tipping elements using network analysis – thus applying a new approach in cl

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/network-analysis-new-approach-uncover-long-distance-connections-between-climate-tipping-elements - 2026-07-23

SMHI, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, is one of the partners in MERGE with many active scientists. SMHI has recently released a podcast that guides the listener through the interesting subject of climate research in practice. In the public debate, we often here the that we need to listen to the climate scientists. But what do climate scientists actually say? How do we study

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-podcast-smhi-klimatforskarna - 2026-07-23