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3 Feb 2025
Understanding identity in the climate transition
A new research project, led by LUCSUS research fellow Felix Schulz, aims to explore how work identities shape attitudes toward climate action and policies, highlighting both challe...
27 Jan 2025
2025 is the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation - research at LUCSUS studies impacts of glacial melt
Around the world, glaciers are retreating at unprecedented rates due to climate change. On January 21, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2025 the International Year of...
18 Dec 2024
New dissertation explores how Sweden’s flight-free movement challenges social norms around flying
Have the flight-free movement’s calls to avoid flying because of climate change had an impact on travel behaviors? What can be attributed to economic factors, changed social norms ...
11 Dec 2024
Lund University ranked third in the world in QS Sustainability Ranking: well deserved
LUCSUS Director Barry Ness and Professor Lennart Olsson are proud that Lund University is ranked third in the world in Sustainability in the QS World University Rankings. It is a r...
9 Dec 2024
Countries' unrealistic land demands to reach net-zero: an area a bit larger than the US
A billion hectares – or an area a bit larger than the US – that is how much land that would be required globally to meet countries’ net-zero climate targets. For the first time res...
8 Dec 2024
Mapping hotspots for sustainable and unsustainable agriculture in Europe
Out of 283 districts in Europe, only two collective regions perform well in both social and environmental sustainability. This is concerning as it suggests that the EU farm subsidy...
12 Nov 2024
LUCSUS at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan
COP29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, has just started in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running from 11th to 22nd November, a key priority for this year's climate conference is ...
12 Nov 2024
Professor Emily Boyd's expectations on COP29
COP29, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, has just started in Baku, Azerbaijan. Running from 11th to 22nd November, a key priority for this year's climate conference is ...
18 Oct 2024
What are ideal outcomes at COP16?
Valentina Lomanto, Juan Samper and Carlos Vélez shares their hopes and reflections ahead of the event.
10 Oct 2024
LUCSUS researchers included in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist 2024 ranking
LUCSUS is incredibly proud to announce that several of the centre's researchers are recognised in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist ranking 2024! Professor Christine Wamsler w...
5 Sep 2024
PhD student Stefan Schüller explores the prospects of a perennial revolution in agriculture
PhD student Stefan Schüller is researching the prospects of a perennial revolution in agriculture as part of the PERENNIAL project. He is motivated by how perennial systems can add...
19 Jun 2024
The IPCC pathways run the risk of reproducing historical injustices, according to a new thesis
A new thesis explores how justice, which is a core principle of the global climate agreements, is considered in the global mitigation pathways assessed by the IPCC for staying with...
17 Jun 2024
Moral resistance to green transitions focuses on unfairness, inefficiency and ineffectiveness
Unfair, ineffective, and inefficient. These are some of the moral objections to increasing fuel prices in Sweden. A new study from Lund University identifies how social movements a...
13 Jun 2024
Reflections from POLLEN2024 - What makes 29 researchers from three continents join forces to create a conference?
The POLLEN2024 conference in June gathered hundreds of researchers across three sites Dodoma (Tanzania), Lima (Peru) and Lund (Sweden) in 200 special panels to discuss political ec...
12 Jun 2024
A new thesis advances the understanding of disproportionate climate-related loss with a focus on land in Cambodia
What is climate-related loss and when can it be considered disproportionate? This question is at the heart of Kelly Dorkenoo’s thesis which explores loss associated with land in sm...
5 Jun 2024
A musical tribute featuring Christine Wamsler's work and vision for a sustainable future
Professor Christine Wamsler's research and extraordinary work on integrated inner-outer transformation for sustainability has made it into a musical!
24 May 2024
Associate Professor Kimberly Nicholas is a recipient of the 2024 Planet Earth Award
Kimberly Nicholas, Asssociate Professor at LUCSUS, is one of six recipients of the 2024 Planet Earth Award, a prestigous prize which acknowledges individuals who champion life on E...
20 May 2024
The loss of Venezuela’s last glacier points to a future where loss as opposed to damage is the new reality
Professor Emily Boyd has been researching loss and damage from climate change for more than 10 years. To her, the news that Venezuela’s last glacier, the Humboldt glacier, is being...
23 Apr 2024
Emily Boyd on her hopes for the new Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes
Professor Emily Boyd is Co-Director of CLIMES, the recently established Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes. Led by Uppsala University in collaboration with LUCSUS and R...
16 Apr 2024
The silencing of social leaders in Colombia leads to historical erasure of social struggle
The silencing of social leaders in Colombia who are defending their territories leads to a historical erasure of social struggles, a decreased capacity to progress environmental an...