Natalia Rubiiano's thesis presents a number of findings connected to justice. One relates to ideas of land availability and the definition of marginal land, that might be used for afforestation or BECCS. A new thesis explores how justice, which is a core principle of the global climate agreements, is considered in the global mitigation pathways assessed by the IPCC for staying within climate polic

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/ipcc-pathways-run-risk-reproducing-historical-injustices-according-new-thesis - 2025-08-23

PhD student Stefan Schüller is researching the prospects of a perennial revolution in agriculture as part of the PERENNIAL project. He is motivated by how perennial systems can address many of the problems connected to agriculture, and hopes to challenge incumbent power structures and spur radical transformations in food and farming in his research. What attracted you to LUCSUS and this PhD?Workin

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-stefan-schuller-explores-prospects-perennial-revolution-agriculture - 2025-08-23

Pictured from top, left to right: Melissa García-Lamarca, Emily Boyd, Bregje van Veelen, Lennart Olsson and Christine Wamsler. LUCSUS is incredibly proud to announce that several of the centre's researchers are recognised in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist ranking 2024! Professor Christine Wamsler was rated the number 1 scientist in Sweden for her contribution to environmental science, ecol

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-included-stanfordelsevier-top-2-scientist-2024-ranking - 2025-08-23

Vaupes in the Colombian Amazon – a view of forest coverage in an Indigenous managed territory. The photo was taken 2015 by Carlos Alberto Hernandez Veléz. COP16 in Cali, Colombia, is the first Conference of the Parties since the adoption of the landmark Biodiversity Plan in 2022 in which countries pledged to save 30 percent of Earth’s land and sea for nature by 2030. PhD student Valentina Lomanto

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/what-are-ideal-outcomes-cop16 - 2025-08-23

COP29 participants pictured during day one, 11th November, of the climate conference. UN Climate Change - Habib Samadov COP29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, has just started in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running from 11th to 22nd November, a key priority for this year's climate conference is to secure a new goal on climate finance, ensuring every country has the means to take much stronger

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/professor-emily-boyds-expectations-cop29 - 2025-08-23

COP29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, has just started in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running from 11th to 22nd November, a key priority for this year's climate conference is to secure a new goal on climate finance, ensuring every country has the means to take much stronger climate action, slashing greenhouse gas emissions and building resilient communities. LUCSUS researchers and LUMES alumn

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-cop29-baku-azerbaijan - 2025-08-23

Out of 283 districts in Europe, only two collective regions perform well in both social and environmental sustainability. This is concerning as it suggests that the EU farm subsidy scheme, the Common Agricultural Policy, is failing to deliver on its aim to protect rural livelihoods, landscapes and the environment. – Currently, public money in the EU is paying for bad performance. Instead of using

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/mapping-hotspots-sustainable-and-unsustainable-agriculture-europe - 2025-08-23

Over 40% of the land pledged in the countries' climate plans is envisaged to be converted into forests from other land uses according to the researchers' study. Photo: Pixabay. A billion hectares – or an area a bit larger than the US – that is how much land that would be required globally to meet countries’ net-zero climate targets. For the first time researchers can show the rate and extent of pr

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/countries-unrealistic-land-demands-reach-net-zero-area-bit-larger-us - 2025-08-23

The University House pictured by Kennet Ruona. LUCSUS Director Barry Ness and Professor Lennart Olsson are proud that Lund University is ranked third in the world in Sustainability in the QS World University Rankings. It is a ranking well deserved they say. – Over the past 25 years, researchers at Lund University have been pioneers in the interdisciplinary field of sustainability studies. In 2008,

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lund-university-ranked-third-world-qs-sustainability-ranking-well-deserved - 2025-08-23

The study shines a light on the need for adaptation laws and policies that empower vulnerable communities, rather than displacing them, say the researchers. Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson. How should societies adapt to rising seas, floods, and other climate threats? These questions are explored in a new study by LUCSUS researchers. It reveals that the answer is broader than just improved policies

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/rethinking-laws-climate-adaptation-exploring-resistance-flooded-cartagena - 2025-08-23

The flight-free movement seems to have paved the way for cultural change in high-carbon norms and practices which is absolutely necessary in the climate transition says Sara Ullström. Illustration: Markus Wendén. Have the flight-free movement’s calls to avoid flying because of climate change had an impact on travel behaviors? What can be attributed to economic factors, changed social norms or a co

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-dissertation-explores-how-swedens-flight-free-movement-challenges-social-norms-around-flying - 2025-08-23

The United Nations declared 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation, accompanied by the proclamation of the 21st March of each year as the World Day for Glaciers starting in 2025. Around the world, glaciers are retreating at unprecedented rates due to climate change. On January 21, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/2025-international-year-glaciers-preservation-research-lucsus-studies-impacts-glacial-melt - 2025-08-23

To find sustainable solutions for employees in industries facing decline, I think you need to understand what it is about the job that is important to their identity, Says Felix Schultz. A new research project, led by LUCSUS research fellow Felix Schulz, aims to explore how work identities shape attitudes toward climate action and policies, highlighting both challenges and opportunities in the tra

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/understanding-identity-climate-transition - 2025-08-23

The conference was opened and closed by Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo, a representative of the Resguardo Indígena, Condagua, Putumayo, Colombia. Inspiring, diverse, and multidisciplinary! DevRes2024, hosted by Lund University, brought together 200 researchers and practitioners from 16 different countries, for a two-day conference in October. DevRes 2024 was hosted by Lund University on 21 - 23 Octob

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/devres2024-inspiring-diverse-and-multidisciplinary - 2025-08-23

Student Louise Maria Skotte Møller chats with LUMES teachers Chad Boda and Daivid O'Byrne. She was part of the project Corporate Watch Dog. An examination of the travel policy in Malmö municipality, flood management solutions in local neighborhoods, lobbying and regulation in Denmark, and biodiversity policies for universities. These were some of 2018 Knowledge to Action Projects – the course wher

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/knowledge-action-projects-2018-travel-policies-overfishing-flood-management-and-biodiversity-loss - 2025-08-23

LUMES alumni Sophia Speckhahn and Annabel Schickner from batch 19 visited LUMES to share their stories about life after LUMES, from graduation to getting their first jobs. Today they are both working with sustainability within different sectors in Germany. Find out what they think are the most important skills they gained from the LUMEs programme and what career advice they have for future LUMES g

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/meet-lumes-alumni-sophia-speckhahn-and-annabel-schickner-batch-19 - 2025-08-23

Students from Batch 22 showcasing their K2A projects. Students tackled overconsumption through setting up a centre for borrowing household items; devised an action plan to ensure that our universities become more sustainable, and explored the potential for art to affect social norms around flying. The Knowledge to Action, K2A, course is all about bringing your theoretical knowledge to bear on real

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/2019-knowledge-action-projects - 2025-08-23

Cristian Pons-Seres de Brauwer The LUMES Alumni Cristian Pons-Seres de Brauwer (Batch 21) is the winner of the Centre for European Studies (CFE) Best Thesis Award 2019. The Centre for European Studies (CFE) annually awards a prize for a bachelor’s or master’s thesis written on a European topic at Lund University. The winner of the  the Centre for European Studies (CFE) Best Thesis Award 2019 is LU

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/lumes-alumni-wins-best-thesis-award-2019 - 2025-08-23

Climate change has become one of the defining social and environmental challenges of our time. In light of the public and political attention that the issue has gained, the need for informed and critical perspectives on this important topic is more urgent than ever.  At LUCSUS, we believe that climate change knowledge needs to be integrated in all aspects of society in order to facilitate the tran

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/new-course-climate-change-and-society - 2025-08-23

Street scene in Kathmandu on the first day of lock-down of the city. Photo: Hanna Geschewski. LUMES student, Hanna Geschewski, has just come back to Sweden after she was temporarily stranded in Nepal during fieldwork for her thesis. In this interview, she reflects on the impact of the corona outbreak on her own studies, and on the society in Nepal, where the socio-economic consequences of global a

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/reflections-corona-pandemic-lumes-student-hanna-geschewski - 2025-08-23