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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Two Lund University climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC representative, talk about what comes next following the recent IPCC report. What do you view as the next steps following what was concluded in the IPCC report? K

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/what-comes-next-after-ipcc-climate-change-report - 2026-09-19

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Climate change and biodiversity losses have long been addressed in parallel organisations. Now the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are launching the first global report that integrates the two issues. T

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-report-measures-support-both-climate-and-biodiversity - 2026-09-19

This year's Annual meeting: Ecosystem-based climate mitigation and adaptation ​Submit your title and abstract (250 words) by 15th of October. ​ Call for presentations 4 talks will be selected Length: 10 minutes incl. questions ​Submit your title and abstract (250 words) by 15th of October. Call for posters Any new or existing posters of past and future BECC activities within the remit of the confe

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/call-presentations-and-posters-becc-annual-meeting-2021 - 2026-09-19

At this ClimBEco summer meeting, mostly held online but with parallel in-person workshops in Gothenburg, Lund and Malmö, was themed around one of humanities ultimate equalizers; that of food. The way we produce, move and use food globally has important implications on just about every challenge we currently face in the world, reflected in the overall title of the summer meeting. To start off the e

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-summer-meeting-2021-food-andeverything-else - 2026-09-19

Welcome to Professor Nina Buchmann from the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zürich. The main research topics of Nina Buchmann include (1) plant and ecosystem physiology, (2) biogeochemistry of terrestrial ecosystems, i.e., forest, grassland and cropland, particularly the response of soil and ecosystem carbon, nitrogen and water dynamics to climatic conditions and management regi

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-guest-researchers-professor-nina-buchmann-and-associated-professor-oliver-sonnentag - 2026-09-19

Professor Adam Hitchcock is one of the most renown and experienced researchers in x-ray adsorption microscopy and especially soft X-ray transmission microscopy (STXM). He has been a full professor at the department of Chemistry at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario since 1989.  A major part of his work is the development of new experimental techniques based on X-ray absorption phenomena and

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-guest-researcher-professor-adam-hitchcock - 2026-09-19

On October 31st, representatives from across the globe will gather in Glasgow for two weeks to attend the UN climate change conference COP26. Expectations are high following last year's canceled conference, and the IPCC report released in August. As part of the Paris Agreement in 2015, it was decided that all nations would renew their climate pledges or national climate plans, so-called NDCs (Nati

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/glasgow-climate-summit-what-it-about-and-why-does-it-matter - 2026-09-19

Dear all, We are proud to welcome you to the first national scientific climate conference in Sweden - a unique opportunity for climate scientists to interact, reflect, and identify knowledge gaps and opportunities for the future. The Swedish Climate Symposium will highlight the main conclusions of the 6th Assessment Report (AR6) of the IPCC and its consequences for Sweden. In a series of topical p

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/welcome-swedish-climate-symposium - 2026-09-19

In February, ClimBEco PhD students gathered for our annual winter meeting. For the second consecutive year – but hopefully for the last time – the meeting was held digitally due to pandemic restrictions, with a small lunch gathering at the conclusion. During this two-day event, participants presented their PhD research to each other in an interdisciplinary setting. They had the option of sharing e

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/climbeco-winter-meeting-2022-summary - 2026-09-19

The BECC Board and the BECC and MERGE steering group at the University of Gothenburg (UGOT) have decided to strengthen the interdisciplinary development of BECC research by announcing funding for up to six 2-year post doc positions. This effort aims to specifically favour BECC’s research development within the field of ecosystem-based climate adaptation in response to actual or expected climatic s

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/call-6-becc-post-docs-years-2023-2025-and-becc-call-research-funding-prolonged - 2026-09-19

Professor Sprinz will join Lund University as BECC guest researcher during two time periods; from mid-September to the end of October this year, and for another six week period during the spring term 2023. His BECC hosting institution will be the Department of Political Science. Professor Sprinz is a leading expert on climate governance. He is a Senior Scientist with PIK—Potsdam Institute for Clim

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-guest-researcher-professor-detlef-sprinz - 2026-09-19

DataGURU is a tool for researchers to disseminate and find climate, land use, biodiversity and related data. The tool can also be of value as open data strategy in future applications for research funding. This work has been commissioned by the strategic research areas BECC and MERGE. The team, led by researcher Veiko Lehsten, developed a tool for the dissemination of the research data that can be

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/dataguru-new-tool-disseminating-and-finding-spatial-temporal-data - 2026-09-19

Read about new BECC related reports and articles, the webtool DataGURU and the many events that BECC is organising this spring. Some examples from the content:Hidden greenhouse gas emissions made visible in new reportNew article about climate change effects on soil nitrogen dynamics Lost genes make fungi dependent on trees30 years of environmental monitoring shows air pollution effects on forestsD

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-becc-newsletter - 2026-09-19

BECC researchers are co-authors of a paper in Nature Climate Change: Optimal stomatal behavior around the world. Plants trade water for carbon. Every litre of water they extract from the soil allows them to take up a few more grams of carbon from the atmosphere in order to grow. A new global study published 2 March in Nature Climate Change shows that plants use their water wisely. They are adapted

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/nature-climate-change-paper-optimal-stomatal-behavior-around-world - 2026-09-19

A research project has, for the first time, investigated how a neonicotinoid pesticide, clothianidin, affects both honeybees and wild bees under field conditions in agricultural landscapes. The study shows that honeybees can cope with exposure to the pesticide, but that it has a strong negative impact on wild bees. Maj Rundlöf, coordinator and principal investigator for the field study, and severa

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/wild-bees-are-harmed-pesticide-becc-researchers-involved-unique-field-study - 2026-09-19

2010-2014 43 Swedish strategic research areas (SRA’s) was funded by the Swedish government, BECC is one of the SRA’s. During 2014 the SRA’s was evaluated. Today the evaluation, together with recommendations for the future, was announced and the BECC environment can be proud to achieve a positive and successful evaluation statement. BECC is also one of four highlighted SRAs out of the 9 situated at

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/successful-evaluation-becc - 2026-09-19

The government has appointed a new research committee that will be providing the knowledge base for the work with the Research Policy Bill 2016. Henrik Smith, coordinator of BECC, is one of the persons appointed to the committee. The research committee will be a forum for Helene Hellmark Knutsson, Minister for Higher Education and Research, to discuss the research policy priorities that the govern

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/henrik-smith-appointed-member-governments-new-research-committee - 2026-09-19

Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition zone between rainforest and desert dominate th

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2026-09-19

The photosynthesis of tropical species in montane rain forest is very sensitive to high temperature which means high-altitude rain forests are particularly under threat by global warming. This has been shown by researchers from the University of Gothenburg in a study published in the journal New Phytologist. An increase in temperature usually stimulates photosynthesis and growth for plants at our

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/tropical-montane-rain-forests-sensitive-temperature-increase - 2026-09-19

Read more about the visit of SSEESS, The Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences, on May 7th. On Thursday May 7th Lund was visited by SSEESS’s Director Magnus Tannerfeldt, Senior Research Officer’s Neda Farahbakhshazad and Dan Wilhelmsson as well as Anna Metzger Communication officer.Magnus, Neda, Dan and Anna  presented what SSEESS is and the role of SSEESS in the global conte

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/what-sseess - 2026-09-19