Emma Bonnevier will join us 2 May to discuss the Swedish Construction Federation’s climate roadmap.
Mistra´s 30th jubilee conference explores the critical role of strategic environmental research in leading towards a sustainable future.
Join Resources for the Future (RFF) and the Sweden-US Green Transition Initiative on Tuesday, 12 March, for "Green Cities: Strategies for Decreasing Construction Emissions" with researchers within Mistra Carbon Exit.
Lars J Nilsson, Lund University, joins the Mistra Carbon Exit Webinar “Towards EU climate neutrality: progress, policy gaps, and opportunities” on 7 March.
1. Towards EU climate neutrality: progress, policy gaps, and opportunities
Lars J. Nilsson is a Professor of Environmental and Energy Systems Studies and Head of the Department of Technology and Society at Lund University. His research focuses on industrial decarbonisation and the co-evolution with the wider energy system transitions.
Lars, who serves on the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change, will join us to give an overview of the board’s work and their recent assessment of the status of the EU climate policy landscape. Read more about the newly released report ‘Towards EU climate neutrality: progress, policy gaps, and opportunities’ here.
2. Questions and discussions
3. Updates from the programme
You can find documentation from all of our case study meetings and webinars here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LIviw3FsGnfY4GfbaxOoY8cK3fGMJSQY?usp=sharing
Feel free to pass on the invitation. The webinar will be held in Teams. Please contact us if you have any questions:
Johan Rootzén, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, johan.rootzen@ivl.se.
Ida Karlsson, Chalmers University of Technology, ida.karlsson@chalmers.se
Tobias Fleiter from Fraunhofer ISI joins the next webinar arranged by Mistra Carbon Exit.
Professor John Hassler has been working on a government assignment to analyse how Swedish climate policy can be developed in light of the EU's new climate legislation. The webinar will be based on this investigation.
Professor Karsten Neuhoff (DIW Berlin) will present and discuss recent work on strategies.
Mistra arranges a meeting point in Almedalen 2023. Researchers from Mistra Carbon Exit are there to discuss the green transition and a climate-smart future.
Aaron Qiyu Liu presents his research on emissions in buildings.
As part of the communication activities within the Mistra Carbon Exit research programme you are invited to an online meeting in April.
Mistra Carbon Exit invites you to a webinar where the researchers Johannes Morfeldt and Daniel Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology, present a recent study exploring the impacts of shared mobility on vehicle lifetimes and the carbon footprint of electric vehicles.
How will the West Swedish industry use the green carbon atoms? Thursday is the last chance to register for the upcoming seminar with researchers within Mistra Carbon Exit.
November 21st offers an interesting breakfast seminar with participation from researchers in Mistra Carbon Exit: Filip Johnsson and Ida Karlsson. The day’s topic:
How will the West Swedish industry use the green carbon atoms?
Western Swedish industry is facing a significant transition to climate-neutral value chains. Come and listen to the latest research on material flows and minimised carbon footprint in the industry followed by a panel discussion with some of West Sweden's primary industry, energy and materials players.
There are many societal opinions on what a sustainable path is. We agree that fossil fuels should go, but how should we manage the green carbon atoms wisely, in different contexts and with what energy? The goal is to create circular systems, but which material flows and technologies will last? These are some of the many pressing issues discussed at this seminar.
The seminar is organised in cooperation with Climate 2030 - Västra Götaland ställer om.
Where? November 21st 8.30-12.00
Var: Chalmerska Huset, Södra Hamngatan 11 (Lokal: Pelarsalen)
Join our webinar Understanding the resistance to carbon taxes with Professor Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg).
The webinar is part of the communication activities within the programme. Feel free to pass on the invitation. The webinar is held as a Teams meeting.
Agenda:
Impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the planned green transformation in Europe
Lars Zetterberg, Filip Johnsson and Milan Elkerbout will give an overview of their recent report on the impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the green transition in Sweden and in the EU, focusing on the energy systems, the supply of critical minerals, and policy implications for the Green Deal and Fit-for-55 package. The report can be downloaded here: https://www.ivl.se/download/18.147c3211181202f18d11ca4e/1657867472879/Ukraine%20PolicyBrief_6%20July%202022.pdf
The full report will be revised and completed this autumn.
Questions and discussions
Updates from the programme
You can find documentation from all of our case study meetings here: https://chalmersuniversity.box.com/s/kijurxo1aa6nzg1ghyz3q6n95u2lsllu
On www.mistra.org you can read a recent interview with Lars Zetterberg on this topic: https://www.mistra.org/nyhet/rapport-om-hur-rysslands-krig-i-ukraina-paverkar-klimatomstallningen/
Please let us know if you have any questions and/or if you want the meeting link for the webinar. Email to Johan.Rootzen@ivl.se
Mistra Carbon Exit arranges a workshop 5 October. The aim of the workshop will be to together take stock of where the building and infrastructure sector is in relation to the targets set out in the fossil free roadmap.
Johannes Morfeldt och Jörgen Larsson (Fysisk resursteori, Chalmers) kommer att presentera resultaten från en rapport som nyligen tagits fram på uppdrag från Sveriges parlamentariska miljömålsberedning.
Malin Dahlström är doktor i ekonomisk historia och forskar inom fältet Business History. Hon har bland annat intresserat sig för hur konkurrens och olika former av samarbete gestaltar sig inom svenskt och internationellt näringsliv och hur företag har agerat historiskt i förhållande till krav på hållbarhet och miljö. Malin kommer vid detta webinarie ge en bild av hur det kommer sig att Cementa fått en så dominerande roll i den svenska byggsektorn.
Successful decarbonization of the building sector and implementation of low-energy and carbon standards worldwide will require monitoring the formulation of targets and establishing which factors in different contexts will lead to the achievement of targets.
Érika Mata, Researcher at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute and Lead Author WGIII IPCC #AR6 will share insights from a recent review of roadmaps for zero and low energy and carbon buildings worldwide.
Alla Toktarova, PhD candidate at the division of Energy technology, Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg) will give an overview of her work on fossil free steel and how electrification of the steel industry via the use of a hydrogen direct reduction steel-making process can interact with the electricity system towards achieving zero CO2 emissions from both the steel industry and electricity sector.
Register by contacting Johan Rootzén, johan.rootzen@ivl.se
HeidelbergCement has recently announced plans to upgrade its facility in Slite on the Swedish island of Gotland to become the world’s first carbon-neutral cement plant.
According to the plans up to 1.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide are to be captured annually from 2030 onwards, which corresponds to the plant’s total emissions. Karin Comstedt Webb who is Head of the Environmental, Social and Governance unit at HeidelbergCement Northern Europe will join us to describe the plans and the road ahead.
Register by email to johan.rootzen@ivl.se
Feel free to share this invitation.
Hur ska man förhålla sig till negativa utsläpp och klimatkompensation och vilka nyckelbegrepp och principer ska man känna till?
Mistra Carbon Exit Webinar: Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfD) and product carbon requirements as tools to derisk and accelerate investments in decarbonization in the basic materials industries
Michael Grubb is Professor of Energy and Climate Change at University College London. Prof. Grubb have combined research and applied roles for many years, bringing research insights into policy making, and bringing practical experience to bear upon academic studies.
Prof. Grubb will provide an overview of a conceptual framework developed to support and improve development of policy mixes for transformative changes. The framework build on the understanding that adequate policy responses requires a holistic view on the myriad of processes involved in any societal transformation.
Processes which occur at different scales: different social scales of decision-making, and different time horizons of those decisions and timescales over which consequences play out.
The Uppsala Climate Protocol is a local network, with representation from the public and private sectors, aimed at developing cooperative solutions to reduce GHG emissions from activities in the City of Uppsala.
Stina Stenquist and Aurora Övereng, both from IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, will share experiences from a recent interview study aimed at mapping out technical and non-technical challenges and opportunities in the network group working to reduce the climate impact from building and construction .
Earlier this year, Elizabeth McNamee presented her Master Thesis at The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University. At this Mistra Carbon Exit webinar, she will provide an overview of her work, which investigates demand-side factors to accelerate decarbonizing technologies within the cement industry with focus on drivers and barriers for novel cement commercialization.
Lars Zetterberg who is the director of Mistra Carbon Exit will discuss some of the lessons from Phase I and inform about the status of the Phase II application. Alla Toktarova and Ida Karlsson who both work as PhD candidates at Chalmers will provide and overview of their recently published work on roadmaps towards zero GHG emissions in the steel industry and the building and construction sector.
Speaker: Åsa Thyrsin, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute
Interested in participating? Please contact Johan Rootzén (johan.rootzen@chalmers.se) or Ida Karlsson (ida.karlsson@chalmers.se)
This webinar is organized as part of the Mistra Carbon Exit case study Buildings and Transportation infrastructure. Very welcome to join us for dialogues and for exchanging ideas.
Hållbar upphandling i bygg- och anläggningssektorn (Sara Nilsson, WSP)
On 2nd April we hope to see as many of you as possible in Gothenburg for a workshop dedicated to the Buildings and Transportation infrastructure case studies within the Mistra Carbon Exit research programme.
The ambition is to summarise and gather up knowledge related to challenges and opportunities associated with reaching net-zero carbon emissions in construction supply chains, from the first phase of the Mistra Carbon Exit research programme, and to…
Welcome to a breakfast seminar about the European New Green Deal
The Green New Deal sets out a roadmap to make Europe the first carbon neutral continent by 2050. It includes proposals for higher ambitions compared to previous climate targets, also reforming the EU emissions trading system and trade measures. But which reforms are under discussion? And what impacts may they have on EU climate objectives and on Swedish and EU industry?
Where: OpenLab, Vallhallavägen 79, Stockholm (T-bana: Tekniska högskolan)
Professor Karsten Neuhoff will join us and present some of the highlight from his and his colleagues recent report “Building Blocks for a Climate-Neutral European Industrial Sector”. He belongs to the researchers who have thought the longest and hardest on how to set up a climate policy framework that could induce a transformation in the CO2-and-energy-intensive industry (e.g. steel and cement). Karsten and his research group is also part of WP4 in Mistra Carbon Exit.
Speaker: John Barrett and Jannik Giesekam, University of Leeds/CREDS
John and Jannik will describe their research which is focused on the role of material efficiency and industrial energy demand reduction in securing a low carbon future. Both have extensive experiences of developing and analyzing strategies and policies aimed at reducing the environmental impact related to the production and use of materials and products in general and related to embodied carbon and materials innovation in the construction industry in particular.
