The collaboration initiative Climate-neutral cities 2030 – Open Academy together with the municipality of Lund, hosted a seminar on financing transformative change. Held in the IIIEE Aula, the event gathered representatives from cities, academia, and society, who joined the conversation on how energy communities can become a part of a sustainability transition. During the seminar, Fedra Vanhuyse (

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/financing-transformative-change - 2025-08-23

The collaboration initiative Climate-neutral cities 2030 – Open Academy together with the City of Malmö arranges a workshop on the topic of citizen engagement. The program offers inspirational talks, researcher presentations, panels, and joint conversations. Welcome to join! When: 16 maj 2024, 10:30-16:00Where: STUDIO MeetingpointNordenskiöldsgatan 24, MalmöRegister your participation and any diet

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/workshop-citizen-engagement-climate-transition - 2025-08-23

Industrial policy is seeing a revival, but it does hardly address Circular Economy. New research from IIIEE, published in Sustainable Production and Consumption, shows how the necessary circular transition in industry can be supported by new types of industrial policies. This exploratory contribution aims to gain an understanding on how an industrial policy for Circular Economy (CE) transition in

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-research-shows-how-circular-economy-can-be-supported-new-industrial-policies - 2025-08-23

A group of researchers and teachers from the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” in Ukraine visited IIIEE to discuss and exchange academic insights. Yesterday, four academic colleagues from Ukraine visited the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) to share knowledge and foster research and educational collaborations. Our guests came from the Department of

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/ukrainian-university-visited-iiiee-share-knowledge-and-foster-research-and-educational - 2025-08-23

Students from the 30th batch of the EMP program at the IIIEE will be part of the Lund University delegation to the Bonn Climate Conference (SB60) this Summer, translating knowledge into practice. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international treaty addressing climate change and reducing greenhouse gasses. It provides a framework countries can follow to coll

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/lund-university-sends-iiiee-student-delegates-un-climate-conference - 2025-08-23

In a resent workshop, representatives from academia and from the Mission cities Lund, Helsingborg, and Malmö, have come together to explore and discuss how citizen engagement can be applied to support cities’ efforts towards becoming climate-neutral. In the light of changing demands on politics from citizens, and a democracy in crisis, citizen engagement is growing.  As a topic that is gaining tra

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/citizen-engagement-path-towards-climate-neutrality - 2025-08-23

IIIEE researcher Yuliya Voytenko Closed loops in the sharing city?Sharing is caring – but is it always sustainable? The sharing economy is altering the way we look at ourselves as consumers and our idea of the market, but it also raises other questions: what role should the city take in this, and how can we ensure that the result is truly sustainable?The sharing economy is a buzzword in the modern

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-yuliya-voytenko - 2025-08-23

Photo: Lars Strupeit As a collaboration between University of Virginia and the IIIEE undertake a short course in Lund focusing on organisations, businesses and sustainability strategies. Since 2014, the IIIEE is hosting students from the University of Virginia in the USA to allow for a short course as part of the Study Abroad program. The course lasts three weeks and the students are working as co

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/students-university-virginia-annual-visit-study-sustainability-iiiee-0 - 2025-08-23

Photo: Philipp Montenegro On Friday 24 May at 13:00 Frans Libertson from the IIIEE defend his thesis "The stories of user flexibility – An exploration of flexibility capital for a just energy transition". The defence was chaired IIIEE Senior Lecturer Carl Dalhammar. Faculty opponent was Dr. Michael Fell – Senior Research Fellow at University College London. His work focuses on social aspects of en

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/frans-libertson-has-successfully-defended-his-doctoral-degree - 2025-08-23

The focus for smart grids has been on the energy and climate implications—in research and practice. Another crucial dimension is whether smart grids can be developed in line with circular economy principles. A new research article from Katharina Reindl, Carl Dalhammar and Emma Brodén studies the relationship between grid and circular economy in more detail and published Circular Economy Integratio

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/what-potential-circular-economy-smart-grid-developments-new-article - 2025-08-23

Photo: Johan Persson This week marked the end of the fourth round of the course “Innovation in Governance for Urban Nature-based solutions”. On Tuesday 28th of May the Final Conference took place with an event that allowed the course participants to showcase the progress, insights, and future commitments. The course is coordinated by IIIEE in collaboration with guest teachers from various departme

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/positive-testimonials-after-another-successful-run-iiiee-course-lifelong-learning - 2025-08-23

Jenny Palm and Anna-Riikka Kojonsaari presented their insights on energy democracy, energy justice and energy citizenship at the 16th NESS – Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference in Turku, Finland. This year's NESS – Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference focused on sustainability transformations and challenges related to knowledge (co)production. The conference programme centered

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-presented-nordic-environmental-social-science-conference - 2025-08-23

Photo: Philipp Montenegro Today the students from Batch 29 celebrated their completion of the Master’s programme in Environmental Management and Policy. The ceremony started with a procession with flags and graduates and teachers walking from the IIIEE building to the main university building. The key note speech was delivered by Karin Jönsson from Statkraft Sweden who praised the students for the

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/graduated-students-celebrating-iiiee - 2025-08-23

INVITATION TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT Researchers and practitioners working with sustainable consumption are invited to submit an abstract to the SCORAI Europe conference 2025, April 8-10, in Lund, Sweden: https://www.scorai2025.event.lu.se/call-abstracts (deadline September 16, 2024)The conference will bring together 400-500 researchers and practitioners concerned with the challenges, strategies, and

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/call-abstracts-scorai-europe-2025-conference-now-open - 2025-08-23

Naoko Tojo from IIIEE is invited to provide a keynote speech at “Forum on Extended Producer Responsibility – the New European generation of Collective Systems” in Florence, Italy on 20 June. The forum is organised by Erion, the biggest PRO (producer responsibility organization) implementing extended producer responsibility systems for a number of product groups ranging from electronics and packagi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researcher-naoko-tojo-invited-keynote-speaker-erion-forum-epr - 2025-08-23

The IPCC defines “sufficiency” as practices or measures that limit the demand for energy and resources. For companies this means focusing on consumers’ actual needs instead of creating trends. But how do they do this in practice? In the new book “Sufficiency in Business - The Transformative Potential of Business for Sustainability”, IIIEE Professor Oksana Mont contributes with real-life examples o

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/can-businesses-adopt-sufficiency-approach-prevent-fast-fashion-new-book-chapter - 2025-08-23

Photo: Jenny Leyman for Sydsvenskan The Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan picks up the topic of sufficiency and slow fashion and interviews Oksana Mont from the IIIEE, Professor in sustainable consumption governance. The newspaper Sydsvenskan has published an article highlighting the emerging trend of slow fashion and sufficiency in a segment of the fashion industry. New companies in sustainable fashi

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/newspaper-article-interviews-oksana-mont-sufficiency-fashion-business - 2025-08-23

Realising the climate transition will have to address its distributive effects, and therefore requires to integrate welfare policies with climate policies. The research of the EU 1,5° Lifestyles project can support the newly elected European Parliament in achieving this, the IIIEE researchers in the EU 1,5° Lifestyles project write in a new blog post on the EU 1,5° Lifestyles website. While the EU

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/our-research-can-help-newly-elected-eu-parliament-realise-climate-transition - 2025-08-23

The call for abstracts to the SCORAI Europe 2025 Conference in Lund closes in less than a month! This is a reminder that the Call for Abstracts to the SCORAI Europe 2025 Conference is open for one more month (deadline September 16, 2024). Researchers and practitioners working with sustainable consumption are invited to submit an abstract: https://www.scorai2025.event.lu.se/call-abstractsThe confer

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/reminder-call-abstracts-scorai-europe-2025-conference - 2025-08-23

The IIIEE is calling for applicants for a PhD position within the project “Evaluating transformative energy governance in an urban context”. The project, which has an interdisciplinary approach, includes three doctoral students - one at Lund University (IIIEE), one at Linköping University and one at Stockholm Environmental Institute. The project is funded by the Swedish Energy Agency and the docto

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/opportunity-apply-phd-position-iiiee - 2025-08-23