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Preventing Environmental Damage from Products: An Analysis of the Policy and Regulatory Framework in Europe Several IIIEE researchers have contributed to a new book form Cambridge University Press: ‘Preventing Environmental Damage from Products. An Analysis of the Policy and Regulatory Framework in Europe’. It is the first comprehensive textbook on product policy and law in Europe, and deals with

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-book-contributions-iiiee-researchers - 2025-10-03

IIIEE researcher Carl Dalhammar will take part in the workshop ‘Law and policy as barriers and driving forces for sustainable energy’ at the Nordic Clean Energy week. At the workshop, Danisj and Swedish lawyers will discuss how law acts as barrier as well as an enabler for sustainable energy solutions. The event is open to everyone.For more information, click here

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researcher-carl-dalhammar-discusses-law-and-policy-barriers-and-driving-forces-sustainable - 2025-10-03

The 9th Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM9) and the 3rd Mission Innovation Ministerial (MI-3) are co-hosted by the European Commission together with Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Nordic Council of Ministers and take place back-to-back in the cities of Copenhagen and Malmö respectively, on May 22–24, 2018. There will be a week-long energy conference with additional side-events – Nordic Clean

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lena-neij-director-iiiee-participates-nordic-clean-energy-week-2018 - 2025-10-03

Scientific Workshop on 21 May On May 23-24, the Clean Energy Ministerial meeting and the Mission Innovation meeting will be held in Malmö/Copenhagen. These meetings gather energy ministers and other high-level delegates from the 24 member countries and the European Union, and provide an opportunity to leverage high-level political will and private sector leadership to drive clean energy innovation

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/transition-low-carbon-society - 2025-10-03

What makes for a successful transition to a low-carbon energy system? Local involvement, perceived fairness and information sharing, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. The researchers studied two cases, one in Samsø (Denmark) and one in Feldheim (Germany) of successful implementation of low-carbon energy systems. Samsø is the world’s first 100% renewable energy-powered islan

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-local-communities-can-transition-sustainable-energy-systems - 2025-10-03

"Experimentation and Slow Consumption: Two Key Strategies in the Transition to a Circular Economy" On 22 May, Nancy Bocken Professor at the IIIEE, gave a keynote speech at the Gordon Research Conference in Industrial Ecology held in Switzerland. The title of the speech was "Experimentation and Slow Consumption: Two Key Strategies in the Transition to a Circular Economy”.Abstract:The Circular Econo

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/nancy-bocken-keynote-speaker-gordon-research-conference-industrial-ecology - 2025-10-03

"Small-scale solar electricity in buildings - power for change in energy systems and everyday life" Prof. Jenny Palm at the IIIEE has reported the results from the project “Small-scale solar electricity in buildings – power for change in energy systems and everyday life” The research was done in collaboration with Uppsala University and Linköping University and it was funded by the Swedish Energy

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/results-finalized-research-project-solar-electricity-buildings - 2025-10-03

Philip Peck presents during the Sustainability Week 2018. On 24 April, IIIEE researcher Philip Peck gave a presentation during the Sustainability Week 2018 at Lund University. His presentation had the title Root causes or 'headlines'? The devil lies in the supply chains. The presentation was given during the workshop "Blood batteries: The dark side of renewable energy" held at the IIIEE.The worksh

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/root-causes-or-headlines-devil-lies-supply-chains - 2025-10-03

New study on how local government (cities), addresses GHG-A in their Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAP). IIIEE researcher Nora Smedby has co-published a new study on Local governance of greenhouse gas emissions from air travel.ABSTRACTGlobal greenhouse gas emissions from air travel (GHG-A) are on the rise, and projections point towards a rapid growth in the coming decades. This study aims to e

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/local-governance-greenhouse-gas-emissions-air-travel - 2025-10-03

What makes for a successful transition to a low-carbon energy system? Perceived fairness of various processes identified as pre-condition for the legitimacy of outcomes, according to new research from the IIIEE and LUCSUS. Luis Mundaca together with alumna Sophie Schwer at the IIIEE and Henner Busch from LUCSUS recently published a research article titled ‘Successful’ low-carbon energy transitions

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-research-article-low-carbon-energy-transitions-attracts-media-attention - 2025-10-03

Over 50% of the global population lives in cities, and those cities all share the same pressing challenge: how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion in a sustainable way? One way of finding answers to that question is urban living labs, a type of testbed where social and technical innovations are tested in real time in an urban setting.“Urban living labs are a new form of govern

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/book-release-urban-living-labs-experimenting-city-futures - 2025-10-03

SAVE THE DATE - 11 OCTOBER 2018! On 11 October 2018, the IIIEE is organizing a City Futures conference in Lund, Sweden. The aim is to bring together academia, municipalities and regional actors within business and industry to discuss how to strengthen the collaboration between science and policy for sustainable solutions. Keynote speakers are Dr. Cathy Oke, Knowledge Broker at Melbourne University

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/city-futures-samverkan-akademi-och-praktik-hallbara-losningar - 2025-10-03

Lunds kommun stärker det klimatpolitiska arbetet genom att som första kommun i landet inrätta ett eget klimatpolitiskt råd. Till rådet föreslås experter med tvärvetenskaplig kompetens från Lunds universitet och SLU. Lunds kommun följer den nationella strategin med ett klimatpolitiskt råd och inrättar en motsvarighet på lokal nivå– Rådets uppdrag är att utvärdera kommunens arbete för minskad klimat

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/forskare-granskar-klimatpolitiken - 2025-10-03

A new report on the possibilities and limitations of socio-economic analyses has been published by the Swedish Scientific Council for Sustainable Development. The report has been handed over to the Minister for the Environment, Karolina Skog.Lena Neij at the IIIEE is a member of the Swedish Scientific Council for Sustainable Development and a co-author of the report on socio-economic analyses.Link

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-report-socio-economic-analyses-published-swedish-scientific-council-sustainable-development - 2025-10-03

A timely special issue that explores policies and sectoral measures to keep the 1.5 °C target within reach Luis Mundaca at the IIIEE together with colleagues from Central European University and University of East Anglia have just concluded the special issue on Demand-side approaches for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C, published in Energy Efficiency.  The special issues underlines that stringen

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/demand-side-approaches-limiting-global-warming-15-degc - 2025-10-03

New article by IIIEE researchers Yuliya Voytenko and Kes McCormick, that develops a typology of urban living labs through a comparative analysis of 40 examples in Europe. The recent upsurge of interest in the experimental city as an arena within and through which urban sustainability is governed marks not only the emergence of the proliferation of forms of experimentation – from novel governance a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/urban-living-labs-conducting-experimental-city - 2025-10-03

Article in Dagens Nyheter On 11 September, Dagens Nyheter published an article on the recent EU environmental committee proposal to have 40 % of all cars be run on electricity or to be hybrids by 2030. Professor Luis Mundaca at the IIIEE gave his opinion on the matter.Link to article here (In Swedish only)

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/eu-proposes-invest-more-electric-cars - 2025-10-03

PhD candidate Jessika Luth Richter helps explore the critical materials in our electronics with the Restart Project as part of their podcast series. IIIEE PhD candidate Jessika Luth Richter is interviewed for a podcast on the topic of ‘critical’ materials that are found in our electronics. She talks about what makes materials ‘critical’, their global supplies, their mining, and how little they are

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researcher-interviewed-podcast-critical-materials-electronics - 2025-10-03

Students of the the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy are presenting their Master's theses. From Monday 1 October to 4 October (including one thesis on 28 September) is thesis defence week at the IIIEE. Students of the the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy are presenting their Master's theses. The opponents are people from academia, business and indu

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-week-iiiee-0 - 2025-10-03

It has now been decided that Per Mickwitz will be the new Director of the IIIEE, during the period of 2019-2021. He will be employed as professor of environmental policy and he will start his position at the IIIEE on 1 January 2019.Per Mickwitz is currently a research professor at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), his current employer, where he is also Research Director.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mickwitz-will-be-new-director-iiiee - 2025-10-03