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Lina Lefstad receives honourable Mention in the The Lund University Agenda 2030 Award

A woman, Lina Lefstad. Photo.
Lina Lefstad is a PhD student at LUCSUS. Her research objective is to contribute to equity and justice in socio-ecological transformations. Photo: Sara Håkansson.

Congratulations Lina Lefstad, PhD student at LUCSUS, for receiving an honorable Mention in the The Lund University Agenda 2030 Award - for her research on how carbon capture and storage can help limit climate change from a global justice perspective.

The award aims to promote innovative and interdisciplinary research on sustainable development by early career researchers at the University.

Lina Lefstad's research explores how CCS can help limit climate change from a global justice perspective. While the process has the potential to reduce emissions, a key question is: who benefits? The countries best placed to use CCS are those with a well-developed fossil fuel industry – raising the fundamental question of whether the 'polluters' should now benefit from solving the problem.

When I received the email I was very surprised, and happy! I feel honoured that the team of experts behind the Agenda 2030 Award deem my work to be of high quality and impact. 

– When I received the email I was very surprised, and happy! I feel honoured that the team of experts behind the Agenda 2030 Award deem my work to be of high quality and impact. That means a lot to me, especially as I am entering the last year of my PhD, and I want to send a big thank you to them as well as to my team of supervisors who support me on the way. Many many congratulations to postdcotoral researcher Jesica López who won the award!, says Lina Lefstad, PhD student at LUCSUS.

Lina will present her research at the awards ceremony during Lund Sustainability Week on 7th May.

Read an article about the awards ceremony at the Agenda 2030 Graduate School website at lu.se 

Read an article about Lina's research at the Agenda 2030 Graduate School website at lu.se 

Biography

Lina Lefstad, photo.

Lina Lefstad is an Ecological Economist. She has an interdisciplinary background with a degree in International Business Management from the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, and a MSc in Ecological Economics from the University of Leeds. Her main research area is the political economy of climate change mitigation. Her PhD research is on carbon capture and storage technology and its climate justice implications, with a focus on how the roll-out of this technology can happen effectively, efficiently and just. Lina´s research objective is to contribute to equity and justice in socio-ecological transformations.  

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