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12 May 2023
70 years since Mount Everest was climbed for the first time - glacial melt now threatens more than just the tourism industry
29th of May, it will be 70 years since one of the world’s tallest mountains, Mount Everest, was climbed for the very first time. An important moment to bring attention to how glaci...
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10 May 2023
New collaboration initiative to support meaning making and inner resilience in education and practice
Professor Christine Wamsler is co-coordinating the new Existential Resilience Collaboration Initiative, ERiCi, at Lund University. It aims to explore methods that support meaning-m...
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4 May 2023
Right Livelihood Award Laureate, Marthe Wandou, visits LUCSUS
On 9 May, we will have the honour to have the Right Livelihood Award Laureate, Marthe Wandou, joining us for a dialogue on human rights education, the environment, and the preventi...
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30 Mar 2023
Professor Lennart Olsson is awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant for visionary research on perennials
The European Research Council's (ERC) mission is to promote research of the highest quality through extensive and long-term funding. The grants are applied for in international com...
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28 Mar 2023
Countries’ climate strategies include large levels of residual emissions and rely on unsustainable carbon removal
A review of 50 countries' long term climate strategies to reach net zero emissions shows that countries calculate their residual emissions differently, and that current climate str...
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28 Mar 2023
Beyond the flames: effects of wildfires in the Mediterranean Turkey
Heatwaves and dry summer seasons have turned the Mediterranean basin into a global wildfire hotspot. In the summers of 2021 and 2022, wildfires raged across all of the Mediterranea...
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28 Mar 2023
Join LUCSUS at Sustainability week 17-22 April!
Join LUCSUS at this year's Sustainability Week. We are organising and participating in events on climate litigation, science and activism, and the role of the arts in the climate c...
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20 Mar 2023
Climate litigation cases explained: what is their purpose, and what is their impact within and outside the courts?
2023 is set to be a watershed year for climate litigation cases globally. Also in Sweden, where the youth organisation Aurora is suing the Swedish state for insufficient climate ac...
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19 Mar 2023
New LUCSUS research project seeks to shed light on power dynamics in climate change adaptation
A new research project led by LUCSUS is exploring how power and politics intersects with climate risk and adaptation at different scales. The aim is to contribute to more resilient...
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21 Feb 2023
Impact Story: Creating impact through art
A picture says more than a thousand words. LUCSUS postdoctoral researcher, Emma Johansson, uses art as a research method to create impacts beyond academia among farmers, pastoralis...
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