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8 Apr 2026
Beyond Facts: An Artistic Take on Sustainability
On 18 April, the final day of Sustainability Week in Lund, Iury Salustiano Trojaborg and Juan Samper will present Sustainability at a Crossroads in the Lund Botanical Garden. This ...
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20 Mar 2026
Agenda 2030 Graduate School Kickoff Focused on Reflection, Dialogue and Future Challenges
Recently, the Agenda 2030 Graduate School gathered for a kickoff retreat that marked the start of this year’s joint work. Set in a calm environment conducive to reflection and in‑d...
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12 Feb 2026
Climate-friendly diet yielded unexpectedly strong nutritional outcomes
That eating plenty of vegetables, wholegrains and legumes is beneficial for health is well known. More surprising, however, is that people who eat in a environmentally-friendly way...
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26 Nov 2025
Ranked best in the world for sustainability – nominations now open for the Agenda 2030 Award
Lund University was recently named number one in the world in the QS Sustainability Rankings. The Agenda 2030 Graduate School is now opening nominations for the annual Agenda 2030 ...
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24 Oct 2025
New anthology explores sustainability through 25 unique perspectives
How can life-saving HIV treatments remain reliable when global aid is uncertain? What happens when animals are reduced to “carbon emissions” in sustainability debates? And how can ...
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7 Jul 2025
A model for inclusive growth – or a warning? Lessons from the garment industry in Mauritius
Production for the textile and fashion industry can, for many countries, represent a first step out of poverty. But what does this mean for those who work in the sector, and what h...
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27 Jun 2025
Research shows: Sustainable development requires locally rooted aid
For hundreds of years, people have made a living from livestock herding in rural Kenya. Today, their traditional way of life is increasingly burdened by the effects of climate cha...
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12 May 2025
From sustainable diets to the global stage – three questions to Anna Stubbendorff
Johan Rockström, Gunhild Stordalen and Christer Fuglesang are among the headline speakers – and so is Anna Stubbendorff, an Agenda 2030 PhD student specialising in sustainable diet...
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8 May 2025
Congratulations to our new PhDs
We are proud to have two newly awarded PhDs within the Agenda 2030 Graduate School! Congratulations to Linn Ternsjö at Lund University School of Economics and Management and Billy ...
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9 Apr 2025
Jesica López honoured for her fight for the future of the Amazon
Wildfires and deforestation are spreading in the wake of an expanding cattle industry in the Amazon rainforest. Now, Jesica López is being recognised for her research, which has br...
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9 Apr 2025
Can the oil industry's know-how help solve the climate crisis?
She grew up in oil-rich Norway, with a father who travelled the world working in the oil sector. Little did Lina Lefstad know that just two decades later she would be a researcher ...
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9 Apr 2025
When care becomes a luxury - Jamie Woodworth on end-of-life care in the Swedish welfare state
What are your thoughts on death? How would you like to spend your last days? These kinds of existential questions are explored at so-called death cafés - gatherings that Jamie Wood...
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21 Mar 2025
Nearly four in ten female students suffer from iron deficiency
Nearly four in ten female upper secondary school students suffer from iron deficiency. Among vegetarians and vegans, seven in ten have low iron levels, according to a new study led...
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7 Feb 2025
Thirteen new PhD students join the Agenda 2030 Graduate School
At the start of the new year, the Agenda 2030 Graduate School at Lund University welcomed thirteen new PhD candidates from seven faculties. This exciting addition to the Graduate S...
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19 Dec 2024
Juan Ocampo researched the organizing of money in places where money is assumed to be scarce
What does it take to implement a complementary currency in a community, and how does it reshape social, technical, and economic dynamics? Juan Ocampo, a PhD graduate from Lund Univ...
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17 Oct 2024
New thesis highlights sustainable solutions to protect the Amazon rainforest
In the Colombian rainforest, cattle ranching is spreading and leading to forest fires and deforestation. This threatens the environment, climate and indigenous people in the Amazon...
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26 Sep 2024
How little does it take to create an artistic experience?
PhD student Steinunn Knúts Önnudóttir not only has a background as a director, writer, theologian, life coach and actor. When she started her PhD in Lund, she was also an academic ...
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19 Sep 2024
New thesis sheds light on Hyllie’s sustainable urban development
Can a new neighbourhood be a spearhead for sustainability if it has a huge shopping mall at its heart? And to what extent can urban planning influence the way people live in an are...
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18 Jun 2024
Integrating existential aspects into sustainability
As the climate crisis deepens, discussions on sustainability are evolving to include the existential aspects of human life. In the autumn of 2023, Lund University's Agenda 2030 Gra...
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12 Jun 2024
Stubbendorff's Index paves way for sustainable healthy diets
The Planetary Health Diet. That's the diet that will keep us healthy and put food on the table for a future world population of 10 billion. But will it reduce strokes, premature de...