Research areas at Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research

BRIGHT: Increased knowledge and new tools for adapting Swedish cities to heat

Project BRIGHT aims to contribute with new knowledge, optimized methods, enhanced tools and user tailored data that enable Swedish municipalities to better adapt to climate change, with a focus on heat waves.

Sustainable management of Amazon forest: a win-win for resource utilization and climate mitigation

The project explores how different management strategies affect both gas emissions and the assimilation of trees and nearby soil.

Linköping University Negative Emission Technologies (LUNETs)

An increasing number of climate targets require net negative emissions of carbon dioxide. Here we study the methods bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and biochar in the Nordic and Tanzania.

Societal Transformations Lab

With Societal Transformation Lab, we create an innovative platform for research on how communities can be set to become sustainable.

Support for stakeholder cooperation and multifunctional adaptation of residential areas

The project aims to strengthen property owners' ability to adapt buildings to the climate. We study how climate vulnerability is analysed in different property stocks and how residential areas can be adapted while residents' added value increases.

Youth Representation in Global Politics

Young people´s concerns in critical transboundary issues such as climate, health and migration have gained significant attention in recent years. In practice, however, the ways in which youth are given voice in global governance remains contested.

Elaborator

Elaborator is the Horizon EU European Living Lab on designing sustainable urban mobility towards climate-neutral cities.

ENHANCE

- Empowering higher education through citizen science and innovative future-orientated learning strategies

Negotiating climate emergency: understandings of temporality in science, public debates and politics

The overall question addressed by the project is how a number of key concepts relating to climate emergency have circulated in various contexts, impacting our understanding of action on climate over time.

GreenInCities

GreenInCities is an EU-funded project under the European Cities Mission that aims to transform urban spaces through Nature-based Solutions and technological applications.

Mistra Carbon Exit

Pathways to Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Supply Chains.

Mistra Geopolitics

A research programme that critically explores the interaction between geopolitics, security and global climate and environmental change.

NAVIGATE

Navigating the policy landscape: barriers and synergies in climate and biodiversity policies.

Solar Radiation Management: Necessary Evil or Viable Climate Action?

Research on solar geoengineering is controversial and faces profound uncertainties, risks, and ethical questions. We study the production of knowledge by examining how these challenges are addressed in models and by modellers.

TwinAIR

- Digital Twins Enabled Indoor Air Quality Management for Healthy Living

ULALABS

University Lab of Labs for Transformative Societal Innovation

Increasing homeowners adaptive capacity

Warmer weather, heavier rain, risk of flooding but also drought. How will climate change affect our houses and homes in the Nordic region? Now you can find out with a few simple clicks on the Internet.

To explore and visualize how cities are transitioning

Contemporary cities needs transition in a more climate-proof, low-carbon and sustainable direction.  This project explores and visualizes how cities’ transitions in the making can be understood and enabled.

Climate Change Policy Integration in Local Policy and Planning CLIPP

The projects targets climate transitions for emission-reductions and adaptation in local spatial planning. Spatial planning is identified as a key arena for a more coordinated and strategic approach to  for example climate change and linking goals.

Visual Water

Heavy rainfall is causing  damage in urban built environments and are expected to be further intensified due to climate change. We develop an interactive visualization platform to support cities in sustainably addressing such climate related risks.

A Global Potluck Dinner

Collaboration on the climate must build on those measures proposed under the new guidelines in the Paris Agreement 2015. In the project here, the climate policy measures of different states are compared and set in relation to their preconditions.

Premises for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage

Climate scenarios for limiting temperature rise well below 2°C rely heavily on bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). This project assesses the socio-political prospects for deploying BECCS at the scales suggested in the scenarios.

Ontological security in a transforming world

Climate change presents security and health challenges. We need to better understand how political and practical responses to climate change emerge from how people experience such challenges and vice versa.

Non-state actors in climate cooperation

Non-state actors, such as companies and organizations, participate in the UN climate negotiations in various steering groups and side events. This research program focuses on these types of activities and the impact they have.

Growing up in a Warming World

In August 2018, 15-year-old Greta Thunberg initiated a school strike in defiance of an adult world that has failed to take climate change seriously. Since then, Fridays for Future has grown into one of the largest protest movements ever.

Linköping University Climate Engineering Research Programme

As greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, large-scale climate engineering seems to be more and more inevitable. The LUCE research programme is exploring the perceptions and opinions that surround the emergence of these high-risk technologies.

Adapting agriculture to climate change

Agriculture is seriously affected by climate changes. This project studies how agriculture can cope with such changes and what effects various adaptation measures may have, based on new methods that include visualization, participation and gaming.

Act Sweden Non-State Action for ClimateTransformation

The role of non-state initiatives in the transformation of Sweden into a fossil fuel-free welfare state.

Citizensensing

This project is an European project with partner institutes in Portugal, the Netherlands and Norway, aiming to co-design and assess participatory risk management systems to support urban climate resilience.

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The Seed Box - An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory

The Seed Box takes as its mission the development of a national center for environmental humanities research across the nature-culture divide, and creative activity related to the pressing environmental problems.