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An out-of-the-box approach to AI and sustainable development
Published Apr 17, 2026New ways of working that contribute to the public good and distribute AI gains – does it sound like fiction? A commentary just published in Nature Machine Intelligence envisions precisely this future....
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KTH ready for strategic climate research collaboration
Francesco Fuso-Nerini presents the new ClimTrio initiative to fellow researchers and KTH president Anders Söderholm. Published Apr 16, 2026Three of Sweden’s leading universities are joining forces on climate research. If the Government follows the Swedish Research Council’s recommendation, KTH Climate Action Centre will play a key role i...
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Win a 7-Day Interrail Pass: Poster Competition Launch!
Published Mar 25, 2026The science is clear: to achieve sustainable change, we must rethink how we live and move. Transportation is a critical part of that shift. In partnership with Students for Sustainability and Interrai...
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All hands needed for the push to 2030
Åsa Persson presents the 2026 report to the government via Helena Dyrssen, State Secretary at the Ministry of Climate and Enterprise. Image from livestream. Published Mar 20, 2026The Swedish Climate Policy Council has just released its report, confirming that carbon dioxide emissions during the current term have moved in the wrong direction for the first time since the 1990s. ...
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KTH Climate Action Centre and Future Earth host fully booked seminar on climate science and policy
Presentation by Daniel Ospina, Science Officer at Future Earth. Published Mar 19, 2026On 12 March, the audience at the fully booked KTH Innovation Office gathered to hear Daniel Ospina from Future Earth present the latest edition of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science report. Resear...
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Clean cooking needs more than better stoves
Women collecting firewood for cooking, a practice that can take hours of time every day in many parts of the world. Photo: Youssef Boulkaid Published Mar 13, 2026Nearly two billion people may still lack access to clean cooking by 2030. A new international study led by KTH researcher Francesco Fuso Nerini argues that faster progress will require more than impro...
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KTH Climate Action Centre Welcomes 2026 Environmental Thesis Scholarship Recipients
Congratulations to Yuki Okamoto, Filip Forsberg, Andrea Robling, Irja Höglund, Kaushiki Brahma, Bhanu Mohindra, Amanda Maria Aho Vanhatapio, Albert Edvardsson, Angela Ofosua Twum, Risha Chowdhury, Sara Hailu, and Johanna Järviluoto Published Feb 19, 2026Sveriges Ingenjörer awarded nine projects with SEK 50,000 for their potential to address environmental problems and offer insights to science-based, practical solutions.
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Prestigious NVIDIA Grant for AI-driven research to KTH Climate Action Centre
Sina Sheikholeslami and Francesco Fuso Nerini. Published Feb 05, 2026KTH researchers Sina Sheikholeslami and Francesco Fuso Nerini will have access to powerful computing resources this spring to develop a language model supporting their research on Sustainable Developm...
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Meet our new student staff members
Max Francis Au and Hannah Ziemons Published Dec 19, 2025KTH Climate Action Centre is thrilled to introduce its two new student workers – Hannah and Max. They will contribute to the Centre’s work by organizing the activities and will be the main contact for...
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Åsa Persson joins the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change
Åsa Persson. Photo: SEI. Published Dec 11, 2025KTH is now represented on the 15-member EEA Scientific Advisory Board providing independent, science-based guidance to support EU climate policy.
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Watch: KTH Launch of the World Energy Outlook 2025
Laura Cozzi helps shape global energy and climate policy and integrate KTH’s expertise into the IEA World Energy Outlook. Here she is presenting at Reaktorhallen, KTH. Published Dec 04, 2025How are global energy trends shaping the future of climate and energy security? On 27 November 2025 at KTH, Laura Cozzi, Director of Sustainability, Technology, and Outlooks at the IEA, presented the ...
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Trends and challenges at this year’s COP30
Protesters during COP30. Photo Åsa Persson. Published Nov 25, 2025COP30 delivered no major breakthroughs to keep the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C target within reach. Yet there were signs that global climate action continues to move forward, even against the current. Åsa...
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AI servers could use ten percent of U.S. electricity by 2030
Francesco Fuso-Nerini is part of the international research team behind a study on AI's environmental impact. Published Nov 21, 2025A study recently published in Nature Sustainability warns that, by 2030, AI servers in the U.S. alone could consume up to ten percent of the country’s current electricity use, an amount comparable to ...
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Newly funded KTH projects reimagine public climate communication
KTH researchers Karin Bradley and Luigia Brandimarte. Published Nov 14, 2025KTH Climate Action Fellows Luigia Brandimarte and Karin Bradley have received project funding through Formas’ call “Effect! From Research to Impact.” Each project has been awarded nearly 4 million SEK...
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Film screens: The Future Planet Film Series
Film still from ”Recycling Colony” a film that explores the complex reality of sustainability. © Korean Broadcasting Service Published Oct 09, 2025This autumn, the KTH Climate Action Centre will screen a series of newly produced films from around the world on climate-related themes. The ”Future Planet Film Series” explores the impacts of climate...
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Climate research projects receive funding for feasibility studies
Grant recipients: Anja Moum Rieser, Katarina Larsen, Sara Borgström, Rebecka Ericsdotter Engström, Jens Ergon, Markus Larsson and Emma Riese, together with Francesco Fuso-Nerini, Director of the KTH Climate Action Centre, and Deputy Director Karin Larsdotter – in front of the Centre’s building (on the left). Photo: Ingenjören. Published Sep 17, 2025Four research groups at KTH have each been awarded SEK 250,000 to carry out feasibility studies for climate-related projects. The funding comes from Engineers of Sweden’s Environmental Fund, which in ...
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KTH strengthens its climate profile – Åsa Persson to Climate Action Centre
Åsa Persson is joining KTH to conduct research on solutions to global environmental challenges. “I grew up in Västerås in a typical Asea family, so I think the engineering mindset is part of me, even though I chose to focus my research on policy and governance,” she says. Photo: SEI. Published Sep 04, 2025With experience as Research Director at SEI, Chair of the Swedish Climate Policy Council, and advisor to the UN, Åsa Persson is now joining the KTH Climate Action Centre. In her new role as Strategic ...
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KTH-developed chatbot makes climate research accessible
Published Sep 01, 2025Qbot is a KTH-developed chatbot that specialises in climate issues. What makes it stand out from similar services is that it relies exclusively on scientific and peer-reviewed sources and can be adapt...
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Lack of Research on Extreme Weather Precautions in Sweden Says KTH's Johan Silfwerbrand
Photo by The Tampa Bay Estuary Program on unsplash. Published Jun 19, 2025In a news segment of Swedish Radio, KTH professor Johan Silfwerbrand warns of a lack of research on protections from extreme weather events in Sweden.
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2025 Environmental Thesis Scholarship Recipients Present Their Work
The recipients of the 2025 environmental thesis scholarship. Published Jun 09, 2025Following a semester of dedicated work, on the 28th of May, the twelve recipients of a scholarship offered by the Engineers of Sweden presented the results of ten different projects aimed at addressin...
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