Climate strategy, policy and economics
This climate action research area focuses on climate policy, systems analysis, transition pathways and related topics.
Research projects
Accelerating progress on the Sustainable Development Goals at the local level
A project and strategy as part of a UN-led effort to support and accelerate action on the Sustainable Development Goals at the local level. Learn more about the project: Accelerating progress on the Sustainable Development Goals at the local level (sei.org)
European Climate and Energy Modelling Forum (ECEMF)
A Horizon 2020 project whose aim is to establish a European forum to support energy and climate researchers and policy makers in achieving climate neutrality.
More info about ECEMF
Personal carbon allowances revisited
This research presents design principles based on the Sustainable Development Goals for the future adoption of PCAs. Read the whole article in Nature Sustainability:
Industry Transition Roadmap Planner
An interactive tool that supports decision-makers in public and private sectors to design, develop, and implement industry transition roadmaps. Learn more about the project: Industry Transition Roadmap Planner (industrytransition.org)
Welfare-maximizing dispatch and pricing water in the water network
Characterises the profile of water injections and extractions, and the corresponding path of prices, that maximises overall economic welfare, subject to the hydrology of a stylised river network.
Windpower and sustainability – Systematic assessments to support fruitful windpower dialogues
Aims to provide better sustainability knowledge on land-based wind power, using environmental and social life cycle analysis and with cases in Sweden.
The impact of corporate governance on carbon emissions
This research programme will empirically examine how ownership form affects firm carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions abatement activities using Swedish data from 1990-2018 as our experimental setting. More info .
Let's do it! Moving forward in the methodological development of Social Lifecycle Assessment in some challenging areas
Development of a methodology to complement environmental assessments with systematic assessments of social sustainability (social life cycle assessment), thus enabling comprehensive sustainability analysis.
Urban Circular Economy Assessment Framework project
Supports cities in adopting circular pathways, thereby reducing dependency on continued natural resource extraction and alleviating environmental pressures.
S.O.S. Sustainable Open Solutions for European urban waterfronts
SOS Climate Waterfront is an interdisciplinary project that aims at exchanging experiences across Europe about new solutions and strategies that can reverse the vulnerability of urban waterfronts.
