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The public event Sustainability Week 2026 took place in April in Lund. The event was a success with about 4000 visitors attending a range of events. This year was the anniversary edition - 10th year of the event - and added to program was also a series of breakfast seminars. The seminars allowed for topical sustainability discussions looking back and looking forward on topics including energy, bio

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/fruitful-collaboration-among-university-departments-sustainability-week-2026 - 2026-09-09

Today, Jessika Richter from IIIEE participates in a live and open chat for the newspaper Sydsvenskan. The chat allows readers to discuss and reflect on different options to adopt a more climate-smart lifestyle. Do I have to stop eating meat? Does it matter how I live? How do I travel in an environmentally friendly way? Does my waste sorting make a difference? Is there money to be made? Living more

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-researcher-sustainability-expert-sydsvenskan-newspaper - 2026-09-09

On Friday 8 May at 13:00 Karolina Södergren from the IIIEE defended her thesis "From the Inside Out. Municipal Strategies for Governing Industrial and Urban Symbiosis”. The defence was chaired IIIEE Senior Lecturer Yuliya Voytenko Palgan. Discussant was Lone Kørnøv – Professor at Aalborg University. Karolina’s work focuses on how municipalities engage with industrial and urban symbiosis - not only

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/karolina-sodergren-has-successfully-defended-her-doctoral-degree - 2026-09-09

The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University is once again hosting a cohort of students from the University of Virginia as part of the UVA in Sweden: Global Sustainability Consulting program, now in its 11th edition. The Institute is the students' base for the duration of the program, welcoming the group to Lund. Modeled after the long-running UVA i

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/uva-global-sustainability-consulting-students-return-iiiee-programs-11th-edition - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Associate Professor and IPCC Lead Author Luis Mundaca participated in high-level meetings during Climate Action Week 2016 in the United States, May 2-6. He first participated in the Universitas 21 Workshop ‘Informing Climate Action 2016’ at University of Maryland. This meeting brought together top scientists from Univ

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/associate-professor-luis-mundaca-high-level-meetings-during-climate-action-week-2016 - 2026-09-09

Last week the EMP program conducted their master's thesis defences. There were 29 defences during the week, followed by a few more in the early autumn. “Adopting Advanced Micropollutant Treatment”, “Downstream Due Diligence”, “Electrification through Swarm Grids”, “Pathways for Biodiversity Management in Food and Beverage Supply Chains” and “the EU WEEE Directive and Photovoltaic End-of-Life Manag

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/week-thesis-defences-successfully-completed - 2026-09-09

This year our students have been collaborating with the client companies Eurolink, Nordic Waterproofing, Repligen, Sydvatten, and Systembolaget to quickly develop well-founded analyses actionable recommendations. The projects were conducted as part of a course on sustainability consultancy, and intense but rewarding course at the end of the first year of the programme. Our students from the master

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/masters-students-deliver-valuable-sustainability-insights-client-companies - 2026-09-09

After two years of studies, master's students from Master's programme Environmental Management and Policy have now celebrated their completed studies in the traditional procession and ceremony. Batch 31 of the masters program Environmental Management and Policy graduated today on 12th of June. The ceremony started with a procession with flags; graduates and teachers joining in the symbolic walk ac

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/batch-31-has-graduated-emp-programme - 2026-09-09

On 18th of June, the Mespom graduation ceremony took place in Vienna, followed by celebrations of the completed Master Degree in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management. The students in the anniversary Batch 20 in the master’s program MESPOM (Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management) have now completed their studies. The program is a Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree, delivered by the 

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/graduation-mespom-masters-students-anniversary-batch-20 - 2026-09-09

How can Europe decarbonize home heating while ensuring that transitions remain fair, inclusive and responsive to citizens' needs? In a new article published in Energy, Sustainability and Society, researchers from the JustHeat project examine how home heating transitions have unfolded in Finland, Romania, Sweden and the UK. The study introduces an integrated analytical framework that combines three

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-publication-home-heating-transitions-across-europe-through-lenses-energy-democracy-energy - 2026-09-09

Welcome Batch 33 of our EMP programme! During the next two years they will pursuit their Master's studies at the IIIEE. The legacy Master’s programme at the IIIEE, the “Environmental Management and Policy”, keeps attracting students with a range of backgrounds. The new cohort is named Batch 33 and consists of 31 students from 22 countries including US, Peru, Kenya, Jordan, Germany, Indonesia, & Au

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-cohort-masters-students-has-arrived - 2026-09-09

Professor Oksana Mont has been awarded a six-month fellowship from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) to conduct research at Tokyo College, University of Tokyo. The project, titled Thriving without growth: Japanese pathways for sustainable business, examines how companies and institutions operate in a context of prolonged low or no economic growth. Japan’s long experience of near-steady-state economic

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/oksana-mont-awarded-fellowship-research-japan-autumn - 2026-09-09

Batch 33 of the IIIEE Master in Environmental Management and Policy has now spent two days in nature on the Kullen Peninsula. The purpose was to kick off their new learning journey, to bond and to be challenged on some key sustainability themes - all in a green and blue setting. The Kullen trip is a two-day student exercise filled with team-building, outdoor adventures, and opportunities to connec

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcoming-batch-33-annual-kullen-trip - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 12 May, the IIIEE was represented by Håkan Rodhe, at the Branding Africa Conference. He met with several African ambassadors and discussed the African need for education, MOOCs, and Ethiopia's fast growth and ambition to be climate neutral by 2030.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/branding-africa-conference - 2026-09-09

We are pleased to announce that new batch of MESPOM students has arrived and started their studies with us. Their first course was kick-started yesterday with a study visit to TetraPak in Lund. The 21st batch of MESPOM-students has arrived at the IIIEE – 16 students from 16 countries.MESPOM is a joint Master’s programme hosted by four universities, and after the first year at Central European Univ

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/global-perspectives-practical-sustainability-mespom-arrives-lund - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In the article "Uber lägger ner Pop i Sverige" published by NyTeknik, Oksana Mont, Professor in Sustainable Consumption and Production at the IIIEE, is commenting on the problems that may arise when the sharing economy is unregulated.

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/oksana-mont-nyteknik - 2026-09-09

The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University will host the seventh biennial Product Lifetimes and the Environment (PLATE) Conference in Lund, Sweden, from 28 June to 1 July 2027. PLATE brings together leading researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to explore cutting-edge research on how longer product lifetimes can contribute to su

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/iiiee-host-2027-plate-conference-product-lifetimes-and-sustainability - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Prof. Oksana Mont at the IIIEE is co-editor of a new edited book on welfare and its relationship to sustainability. Welfare is commonly conceptualized in socio-economic terms of equity, highlighting distributive issues within growing economies. While GDP, income growth and rising material standards of living are norma

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-book-sustainability-and-political-economy-welfare - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Seven shades of green: Exploring options for sustainable transitions A new Strategic Environmental Development (SED) report has been published by Master's students of the Environmental Management and Policy (EMP) programme at the IIIEE.Follow the link to access the full report: Seven shades of green: Exploring options

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/new-sed-report-masters-students - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Swedish wood: Innovative products for a circular economy Can Swedish wood be the answer to our future needs, from T-shirts to 10-storey apartment buildings? The challenge is not the technology, but how society can support the development of this market. It has the potential for creating both a sustainable and circular

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-ake-thidell - 2026-09-09