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6 Dec 2022
Torsten Krause comments on the UN conference, COP15
Just a month after the UN climate summit in Egypt, the leaders of the world meet again, at COP15 in Montreal, to address another acute crisis facing humanity – the loss of biodiver...
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5 Dec 2022
PhD Student Carlos Velez explores the role of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge in relation to wildlife consumption
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28 Nov 2022
Norms make the transition to forestry without major clear-cutting difficult
For decades, the Swedish forest have been intensely managed through clear-cutting and tree planting to maximize wood production. This type of management has created a strong cultur...
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25 Nov 2022
Reflections from COP27 by Fabiola Espinoza Córdova and Alicia N’Guetta
LUCSUS PhD students, Fabiola Espinoza Córdova and Alicia N’Guetta, share their insights from their experience at COP27.
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10 Nov 2022
New report: 10 New Insights in Climate Science
The 10 New Insights in Climate Science presents key insights from the latest climate change-related research this year and responds to clear calls for policy guidance during this c...
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8 Nov 2022
LUCSUS engagement during COP27
Read about our research, engagement and researchers at COP27, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, hosted by Egypt in Sharm El Sheikh. It is held between 6-18 Novembe...
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3 Nov 2022
Countries' Climate Pledges Put Unrealistic Demands for Land Ahead of Emissions Reductions
Countries’ climate pledges are dangerously over reliant on inequitable and unsustainable land-based measures to capture and store carbon. This is stated in a new study, co-written ...
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31 Oct 2022
Loss and damage: the most critical question for COP27
The UNFCCC climate meeting COP27 is less than a week away. With evidence growing that green house gas emissions are making extreme events occur more frequently, and with greater in...
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26 Oct 2022
PhD student Bernard Ekumah studies smallholder farmers' organisations and large-scale land acquisition in rural Ghana
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26 Oct 2022
PhD student Michaelin Sibanda studies gender and women’s mobilization strategies for sustainable agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
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26 Oct 2022
LUCSUS contributes to a new explainer on non-economic loss and damage
Guy Jackson, post-doctoral researcher at LUCSUS, has co-written a new explainer on loss and damage, published by the by Loss and damage Collaboration. It unpacks the what, why, how...
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6 Oct 2022
How to build transdisciplinary and trusting relationships for societal transformations
New research from LUCSUS identifies key insights for how to create and maintain more successful collaborations.
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30 Sep 2022
Congratulations to the 2022 Right Livelihood Award laureates
LUCSUS congratulates the 2022 Right Livelihood Award laureates.
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22 Sep 2022
New research on disproportionality in loss and damage from climate change
New research examines disproportionality in loss and damage from climate change. What is disproportionate, to whom, and in relation to what?
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9 Sep 2022
New report analyzes Swedish political parties climate policies prior to the election.
A new report written by LUCSUS researchers Kimberly Nicholas and Wim Carton, together with other researchers from the network Researchers' Desk, analyzes the Swedish political part...
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13 Jun 2022
New study: Envisioning sustainable carbon sequestration in Swedish farmland
The agricultural sector and industrial food system is a major contributor to climate change, and biodiversity loss, and particularly vulnerable to its impacts. It is therefore esse...
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18 May 2022
New Report about Meeting the Climate Crisis Inside Out
To meet the climate crisis, we urgently need more integrative policy approaches that link inner and outer dimensions of climate change, states a newly released report co-authored b...
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13 May 2022
PhD student Natalia Rubiano studies the social and ecological implications of negative emissions technologies
With a focus on justice and transformative change, PhD candidate Natalia Rubiano wants to contribute to fill some of the knowledge gaps in the space of Carbon Removal and Negative ...
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26 Apr 2022
The most effective ways of reducing car traffic
Researchers have identified the top 12 ways European cities have been able to curb car use. The most effective measure was applying a congestion charge, with the notable case of Lo...
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22 Apr 2022
Achieving more sustainable value chains are crucial for preventing deforestation and biodiversity loss
The increasing demand of minerals, oil, and agricultural goods have severe negative social and environmental impacts. The extraction of resources leads to land dispossession of sma...