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 - 2025-09-09

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 - 2025-09-09

Photo: Maarit Kytöharju 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 Dire

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mickwitz-will-be-new-director-iiiee - 2025-09-09

Students of the the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy are graduating. On 5 October 2018, the annual Graduation Day at the IIIEE takes place. This year it is batch 23 who graduates from the Master's programme in environmental management and policy (EMP programme) at the IIIEE.If you have any questions regarding graduation day, please contact Håkan Rodhe, Director of External

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/graduation-day-iiiee - 2025-09-09

Luis Mundaca, Lead author of the IPCC Special Report and Summary for Policymakers, and Professor of Policy Analysis at the IIIEE at Lund University, comments on the report. The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC was approved by the IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) on Saturday in Incheon, Republic of Korea. It will be a key scientific input into the Katowice Climate Chang

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/ipcc-special-report-global-warming-15oc-has-been-approved-governments - 2025-09-09

Sustainable city futures need experimentation and innovation developed through collaboration between academia and social actors.On Thursday 11 October 2018, the IIIEE organized a City Futures Conference series in Lund, Sweden. The aim was to bring together academia, municipalities and regional actors within business and industry to discuss how to strengthen the collaboration between science and po

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/city-futures-collaboration-between-science-and-society-sustainable-solutions - 2025-09-09

IIIEE researcher Luis Mundaca Photo: Sara Bernstrup Nilsson Efforts to combat climate change tend to focus on supply-side changes, such as shifting to renewable or cleaner energy. In a Special Issue in the Energy Efficiency Journal that follows the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ˚C, researchers argue that demand-side approaches can play a crucial role given the aspirational target ou

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/can-we-limit-global-warming-15-degc - 2025-09-09

Focusing on Circular Economy 12 November 2018 MOOCWe are proud to present a new MOOC in the Greening the Economy series:Circular Economy - Sustainable Materials Management!This free, on-line course looks at where important materials in products we use every day come from and how these materials can be used more efficiently, longer, and in closed loops.The MOOC involves expert researchers and pract

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/launch-new-mooc-and-podcast - 2025-09-09

On 14 November, the winners of the yearly award "Årets framtidsbyggare" was announced during a ceremony at Skissernas museum. The yearly award "Årets framtidsbyggare" is a prize (1.2 million SEK) with three categories: 1) "Årets innovatör" (The innovator of the year, 750 000 SEK), 2) "Årets opinionsbildare" (The opinion-former of the year), 3) "Årets talang" (The talent of the year).This year, 7 s

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/winners-yearly-award-arets-framtidsbyggare-announced-0 - 2025-09-09

Kes McCormick, Lucie Zvolska and Yuliya Voytenko Palgan Yuliya Voytenko, Lucie Zvolska and Kes McCormick are in Barcelona attending the Smart City Expo World Congress, SCEWC, (where some 20,000 people are gathering to talk about smart cities of the future) and the Sharing Cities Summit, which is the leading event for the sharing economy in cities. Sharing Cities Sweden, which is coordinated by the

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researchers-smart-city-expo-world-congress-and-sharing-cities-summit - 2025-09-09

Photo: Shutterstock "Sweden needs to deal with the effects of consumption" Professor Oksana Mont at the IIIEE, along with several other experts, recently co-authored an opinion piece on the effects of consumption in Svenska Dagbladet.The article especially highlights the need for powerful politics to limit consumption and its effects on our climate.    Link to full article (in Swedish only)  

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/opinion-piece-svenska-dagbladet - 2025-09-09

Photo: Maarit Kytöharju During the period of 2019-2021. Per Mickwitz will be the new Director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), during the period of 2019-2021. Per Mickwitz is currently the Research Director of the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), where he is also a research professor.  As of 1 January 2019, he will be Director of the IIIEE and he

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/mickwitz-his-new-position-director-iiiee - 2025-09-09

Photo: Håkan Röjder We stand with Central European University, CEU!We have had 15 years of fruitful collaboration with CEU, notably on our joint MESPOM master programme where we have had a steady flow of creative talent from all over the world.CEU is important. In so many ways, and to so many people.We will continue to support CEU.And look forward to do more great things together!

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/we-stand-ceu - 2025-09-09

Organizations can innovate to address environmental and social problems — but they need to build the right culture. Professor Nancy Bocken at the IIIEE, has co-authored an article on Driving Sustainability-Oriented Innovation, published in MIT Sloan Management Review.In the article, the authors take a closer look at what a Sustainability-Oriented Innovation Culture looks like and how such a cultur

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/driving-sustainability-oriented-innovation - 2025-09-09

Johanna Lissinger Peitz Foto: Roger Turesson With climate change realities affecting us all we are extra keen to follow the work of our alumna Johanna Lissinger Peitz, Sweden's cheif negotiator and one of three climate negotiators representing the EU in the upcoming Katowice COP24 meeting.The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter wrote an article about Johanna Lissinger Peitz, her role as climate negot

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-alumna-johanna-lissinger-peitz-eu-climate-negotiator-katowice-cop24-meeting - 2025-09-09

In a time of growing inequality, this special issue explores justice, policy and sustainability aspects related to low-carbon energy systems. Prof. Luis Mundaca together with colleagues from LUCSUS, University of St. Andrews, University of Sussex, University of Dundee, and Stellenbosch University have concluded the special issue on Low Carbon Energy Systems and Energy Justice, published in Applied

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/low-carbon-energy-systems-and-energy-justice - 2025-09-09

With a growing interest in the Circular Economy, where new business models are needed, the role of the consumer needs to be explored and this study contributes to this need with an expert study. A team of researchers from Lund University (Nancy Bocken) and TU Delft (Vivian Tunn, Ellis van den Hende, Jan Schoormans), led by PhD researcher Vivian Tunn have conducted an expert study on the role of th

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/business-models-sustainable-consumption-circular-economy-expert-study - 2025-09-09

The third and successful workshop was held at the IIIEE on 1-3 December 2016. Photo: Håkan Rodhe The third and final scenario building workshop under the post conflict futures initiative of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), took place at the IIIEE on 1-3 December 2016.In the workshop, researchers from the II

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/third-and-final-scenario-building-workshop-post-conflict-futures-initiative - 2025-09-09

IIIEE researcher Kes McCormick at the Sustainable City Development conference in Malmö, Sweden. Kes McCormick presented findings from the Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions (GUST)  project at the Sustainable City Development conference in Malmö, Sweden.Urban Living Labs (ULLs) have emerged as an approach to experimentation in real-life city settings. They can be defined as sites (build

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/catalyzing-sustainable-cities-through-urban-living-labs - 2025-09-09

Jonas Sonnenschein Photo: Blaž Samec Focusing on low-carbon economy. Jonas Sonnenschein is a PhD candidate at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University. He has a background in Philosophy & Economics (BA) from Germany – where he originally comes from – and he holds a Master in Environmental Management and Policy (MSc). Before moving to Lund for Ph

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-phd-candidate-jonas-sonnenschein - 2025-09-09