News
-
The stock market makes a contribution to climate action
The diploma session was an opportunity for the three organisations to meet each other and the responsible for the initiative at Nordnet. Foto: ITM. Published Apr 04, 2022KTH Climate Action Centre, The Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation and The Baltic Salmon Foundation have each received a third of a donation from the digital bank Nordnet and its customers. On April 1, it was...
Read the article -
We know what we should be doing to solve the climate crisis, why are we not doing it?
Figure: Synergies and trade-offs between climate action and the SDGs Targets. (Source: Fuso Nerini et al, Connecting climate action with other Sustainable Development Goals, Nature Sustainability 2019) Published Apr 04, 2022Today, April 4, IPCC Working Group III has released its long-awaited Sixth Assessment Report. The report urges for system-level climate action and focuses on the transformative changes needed to achie...
Read the article -
Call for two postdocs with connection to Climate Action Centre
Published Mar 25, 2022We are happy to announce two 2-year postdoc positions on the environmental impacts of digitalisation based on life-cycle assessment. The positions are a cooperation between KTH Climate Action Centre, ...
Read the article -
ICON Magazine interviews Francesco Fuso-Nerini
Francesco Fuso-Nerini. Photo: Anders Lindén for ICON Magazine. Published Mar 15, 2022Francesco Fuso-Nerini, director of KTH Climate Action Centre, is featured in the latest issue of the Scandinavian Lifestyle magazine ICON Magazine. In the article, Francesco discusses KTH Climate Acti...
Read the article -
The role of digitalization in achieving the climate goals
Workshop participants from KTH Climate Action Centre and Digital Futures. Published Mar 11, 2022KTH Climate Action Centre has arranged its first workshop in collaboration with the interdisciplinary research centre Digital Futures. The workshop focused on how digitalization can help fight climate...
Read the article -
New report from IPCC: Immediate action and collaboration needed
Image source: IPCC Published Mar 01, 2022The UN’s Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a new report on adaptations needed to stop climate change. The report present lifestyle changes and adaptations that can be implem...
Read the article -
Follow Climate Action Centre on Instagram
Published Feb 18, 2022KTH Cimate Action Centre has launched an Instagram account. KTH Climate Action Centre's Instagram account will provide the latest information and updates about climate initiatives, upcoming events and...
Read the article -
Meet our new student staff members
Alma Berggren Ek, Helena Glisén and Oscar Stenström. Published Feb 02, 2022KTH Climate Action has hired three students, Alma, Oscar, and Helena. The new student staff members’ work will be focused on communication around the competence centre’s activities and events. Here th...
Read the article -
Climate Action Centre to host seminar during the Olympic Games
Photo: Simon Connellan, Unsplash Published Jan 27, 2022During the Olympic Games, the KTH Climate Action Centre will host a seminar at the Sweden Arena about sports and the climate. The aim of the seminar is to spread information about how sports affect th...
Read the article -
Billions for innovative materials
Three different versions transparent wood, one of the innovative materials that researchers at KTH works with. Published Nov 30, 2021The Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse (KAW) is investing over SEK 3 billion in materials research with the aim of enabling a more sustainable society. The money will be shared between KTH and five ...
Read the article -
He examines adaptations in society to climate change during times of deep uncertainty
Per Wikman Svahn undersöker risker och däribland hur vi kan anpassa samhället till de stigande havsnivåerna. (Foto: Hanna Kalla) Published Nov 17, 2021Per Wikman Svahn is a researcher at the Division of Philosophy and examines, among other things, decision-making strategies during times of deep uncertainty, philosophical aspects of worst-case scenar...
Read the article -
Economics researcher: Invest more in the climate
The expansion of charging points is a key part of the transition to electric vehicles. (PHOTO: GAMMA-MAN/Mostphotos) Published Nov 03, 2021Larger investments in the climate even if it means less money for other things now, but that can easily profit future generations. This is an important step along the way to meet Sweden’s climate goal...
Read the article -
'Consuming more won’t make us any happier'
“We are facing major systemic changes. We have entered a new renaissance. Sustainability is increasingly proving to be the way forward towards modern welfare, that which can result in more stable societies and by extension, more peaceful times,” says Johan Rockström, climate researcher and Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Photo: Fredrik Persson Published Jun 29, 2021As a diligent debater on environment issues, climate researcher Johan Rockström has long warned that climate changes on Earth are leading towards a global crisis. Today, he is a director of one of th...
Read the article -
Francesco Fuso-Nerini receives teacher award
Published Jun 16, 2021He conducts extensive and pioneering sustainability-related education and research, and has started international collaborations spanning over many research areas. For that Francesco Fuso-Nerini at th...
Read the article -
Science that ‘hits the spot’ for peace, sustainable development
Preparing for planting in an irrigated field in Morocco, one of several arid countries where researchers from KTH's division of Energy Systems work with local officials to help them balance the countries natural resources. (Photo: SuSanA Secretariat/Lydia Herrmann CC by 2.0) Published Nov 10, 2020On UN World Science Day for Peace and Sustainable Development, Francesco Fuso-Nerini reflects on the importance of scientific research to inform decision-making and international cooperation.
Read the article
Showing page
4
of
4