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27 Oct 2021

The Glasgow climate summit - what is it about and why does it matter?

On October 31st, representatives from across the globe will gather in Glasgow for two weeks to attend the UN climate change conference COP26. Expectations are high following last y...

5 Oct 2021

BECC guest researcher: Professor Adam Hitchcock

27 Sep 2021

BECC guest researchers: Professor Nina Buchmann and Associated professor Oliver Sonnentag

24 Sep 2021

Summary of ClimBEco summer meeting 2021 - Food and.....everything else

At this ClimBEco summer meeting, mostly held online but with parallel in-person workshops in Gothenburg, Lund and Malmö, was themed around one of humanities ultimate equalizers; th...

2 Sep 2021

Call for presentations and posters: BECC Annual meeting 2021

This year's Annual meeting: Ecosystem-based climate mitigation and adaptation ​Submit your title and abstract (250 words) by 15th of October. ​

12 Aug 2021

What comes next: after the IPCC climate change report

Two Lund University climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC representative, talk ab...

11 Aug 2021

Urban private gardens promote biodiversity

They become smaller as urbanisation increases. Troublesome, according to researcher Helena Hanson, because urban private gardens affect both cities’ biodiversity and human wellbein...

10 Jul 2021

New report: Measures that support both the climate and biodiversity

Climate change and biodiversity losses have long been addressed in parallel organisations. Now the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

2 Jun 2021

Climate benefits of the forest – a balancing act in prioritisation

The forest is currently at the centre of an intense debate. It concerns, in simplified terms, which climate benefits the forest can provide, either by sequestering carbon in standi...

24 May 2021

Assignment to the Swedish Forestry Agency to start re-wetting drained peatlands