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LUCSUS researchers are participating in several events and activities at the UN Climate Change Conference, COP28, held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, between 30 Nov - 12 Dec 2023. Accredited researchers from LUCSUS at COP28 Researchers participating on-site:Emily BoydGuy JacksonResearchers particpating onlineKelly DorkenooAlicia N'guettaKimberly NicholasNatalia RubianoChristine Wamsler Events at
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-cop28 - 2025-08-27
Is water one of the world’s most dangerous substances? Is climate change a threat to national security? How does turbulence, national and international, affect governance of sustainability? These are some of the topics that will be discussed as part of LUCSUS’ involvement in the Lund University 350th anniversary celebration.LUCSUS’ programme of activities include both centre specific activities s
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-and-lund-university-350th-celebrations - 2025-08-27
It is important that we focus on reducing carbon dioxide emissions and that we do not use the fund as an excuse to do nothing. The fund needs to address the losses and damages that are already occurring, says Emily Boyd. Photo: UNFCCC COP27. Kiara Worth. On the first day of the COP28 climate change conference in Dubai, a formal decision was taken to establish a loss and damage fund to support deve
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/many-questions-remain-new-loss-and-damage-fund-formally-established-cop28 - 2025-08-27
Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete. Photo: Marco Giugliarelli for Civitella Ranieri Bertrand Chavarría-Aldrete has been a doctoral student at the Malmö Academy of Music since September 2020 and will soon be defending his dissertation project “Plastic Extension of Music” (22 May 2025). Part of his doctoral defence is a large exhibition that will take place at IAC (16–23 May 2025). What is your dissertatio
https://www.iac.lu.se/article/bertrand-chavarria-aldrete - 2025-08-27
Fernando Garnero. Photo: Maire Palacios. Fernando Garnero has been a doctoral student at the Malmö Academy of Music since September 2020 and will defend his dissertation project "Mutations in the Composable – Compositional Practice as a Space of Experimentation, Tension, and Uncertainty” on 12 May 2025. Part of his doctoral defence is a concert that will take place at IAC (11 May 2025). What is yo
https://www.iac.lu.se/article/meet-fernando-garnero - 2025-08-27
The 8-dimensional hypercube measure polytope (MP) VILBJØRG BROCH The More Sound jury received many interesting applications for a residency at IAC by the closing date on 1 May 2025, and one project has now been selected: congratulations to Danish composer Vilbjørg Broch!Vilbjørg Broch (* 1967) has a background in postmodern dance, improvisation and vocal performance. Her studies include School for
https://www.iac.lu.se/article/more-sound-artist-selected-vilbjorg-broch - 2025-08-27
Flooding in India. Image credit: Asian Development Bank It feels almost shameful to admit, but climate change has always felt like something abstract and far away. Of course, I know that climate change is happening. I can explain the greenhouse effect. I even use climate change as an argument for banning meat from my diet, reducing my consumption of animal-based products, and travelling through Eu
The UN Climate Change Conferences regularly fail to adequately address climate change. Does this relate to how the conferences are designed and organised? Could developing a different culture of cooperation and communication help to make progress? Which mindsets and associated inner qualities might be conducive in this process? A new study and article by Professor Christine Wamsler and colleagues
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sustainable-climate-action-requires-new-mindsets - 2025-08-27
Plastic art often illustrates problems such as littering or disposable use. Image: Pixabay. A wound in nature, cheap rubbish and dangerous for animals and humans. This is how plastic is presented in visual art and photography around the world, finds a new study. But according to the researchers, some problems are not illustrated. The study is co-authored by LUCSUS researcher Sara Ullström. Togethe
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/art-plastics-often-portrayed-waste-and-littering - 2025-08-27
Tree plantations. Mostphotos. Large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR), is increasingly seen as a key component of climate change mitigation pathways that limit warming to 1.5C or 2C. CDR approaches tend to be frames as novel and untested, and mostly focuses on hypothetical future scenarios. Yet CDR has a longer and, in many ways, more tangible history than this framing suggests – the lessons of
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/negative-emissions-and-long-history-carbon-removal - 2025-08-27
Previous forest fires in the Amazon. Photo: markhillary/flickr. The official figures for forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon in August 2020 show a slight decrease from last year. But researchers at the Brazil's Space Research Institute, Inpe, warn that data may need to be corrected so much that they instead reveal the worst fires in a decade. Torsten Krause, researcher in forest hunting, deforest
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researcher-torsten-krause-comments-fires-brazilian-amazon-august-2020 - 2025-08-27
Murray Scown and Kimberly Nicholas, researchers at LUCSUS, have analysed in detail how EU agricultural subsidies flow down to the local level. The new data show that most income support payments go to intensively farmed regions already above median EU income, while climate-friendly and biodiverse farming regions, as well as poorer regions, are insufficiently funded. Consequently, the majority of p
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-researchers-analyse-how-billions-eu-farming-funding-subsidies-are-being-spent - 2025-08-27
LUCSUS researchers will be part of the upcoming 2020 Virtual Forum on Earth System Governance, where they will be organising a session on migration and climate change. LUCSUS and the University of Liége will be facilitating an innovative session on 16th of September, 2020 at 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (CEST) in the 2020 Virtual Forum on Earth System Governance. The session “Is climate change migration a se
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/2020-virtual-forum-earth-system-governance - 2025-08-27
Photo: Pixabay. Sara Ullström, PhD in Sustainability Science, will present her work at a first seminar on 17th September. We asked her to explain what her research within the project, The takeoff of staying on the ground, is about. What do you explore in your PhD? My research investigates the questioning of high-carbon worlds through the case of the staying on the ground phenomenon in Sweden. This
In her first year seminar on 17th September, Kelly Dorkenoo, PhD at LUCSUS, will highlight her research on negative impacts of climate change in Cambodia. She aims to identify potential pathways to address disproportionate losses and damages from climate change at different levels in society. What is your research about? My research is on the negative impacts of climate change in Cambodia. I focu
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-kelly-dorkenoo-focuses-negative-impacts-climate-change-cambodia - 2025-08-27
Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson. Negative emission technologies, or large scale carbon dioxide removal, are increasingly seen as key to slow or halt climate change. Researchers now warn that they are fraught with uncertainties, and raise questions about land use, justice and power. Wim Carton, researcher at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, explains what these technologies are abou
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/uncertain-future-negative-emission-technologies - 2025-08-27
LUCSUS organises two events at the Future week at Lund University, discussing the future of social movements and the future of traveling, in the light of both the climate crisis and the coronavirus pandemic. The events will take place both onsite and online. 14 October 15.00-16.00: The future of traveling, mobility and flyingFlying, or rather flying less, has been in the public debate for the las
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lund-university-future-week-12-18-october - 2025-08-27
LUCSUS has been awarded SEK 20 million for a new research project aimed at mobilising farmer organisations for sustainable agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. The project is one of eleven new research projects, with a focus on Agenda 2030, that have been awarded funding in one of Formas’ biggest targeted calls ever. Interview with LUCSUS researcher Ellinor Isgren, who is leading the new FORMAS proj
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-receives-grant-sek-20-million-realise-global-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-08-27
How can the climate movement continue its struggle and be a force for change in the light of other current crises such as social and economic injustices, inequalities and pandemics? Mine Islar, researcher at LUCSUS, says that joining forces with other causes and movements are one way forward, another is to stay focused and keep a long-term perspective. On October 15, LUCSUS is organising the event
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-will-climate-movements-continue-shape-future - 2025-08-27
New research highlights how coastal planning and environmental restoration overlook social needs, cultural claims and existing vulnerabilities in Louisiana, USA. New research highlights how coastal planning and environmental restoration overlook social needs, cultural claims and existing vulnerabilities. Using Louisiana’s coastal wetlands as a case, researcher David O’Byrne argues that it is high
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/environmental-claims-and-social-needs-clash-louisianas-coastal-wetlands - 2025-08-27
