Knowledge for Sustainable Development 2025 - Breaking barriers to climate solutions.

Lars J. Nilsson is a Professor and Head at the Department of Technology and Society, Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. His research revolves around decarbonization transitions, including climate and industrial policy. He was coordinating lead author for the Industry Chapter in IPCC AR6 WGIII report (2022) and he is a member of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change.

Lars J. Nilsson | Lund University Research Portal

Harro van Asselt is a professor and holds the Hatton Professorship in Climate Law at the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge he is also a Law Fellow at Hughes Hall. He is also a Professor of Climate Law and Policy at the University of Eastern Finland Law School, and an Affiliated Researcher with the Stockholm Environment Institute. Professor van Asselt has published extensively in the field of climate change law and policy, covering developments in international, European, and national climate law and governance. He has contributed to high-level reports informing policymakers, such as the IPCC’s 6^th Assessment Report and UNEP’s Emissions Gap and Production Gap reports.

Harro van Asselt | University of Cambridge Department of Land Economy

Dr. Claudia Ituarte-Lima is an international public lawyer and scholar with over two decades of experience at the intersection of human rights, biodiversity, and climate change law and policy. She serves as Thematic Lead and Senior Researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and as Director of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment. She has contributed as an expert to the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the European Parliament. 

Claudia Ituarte Lima | Lund University Research Portal

David Edwards is Professor of Plant Ecology, and Head of the Tropical Ecology and Conservation Group in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the conservation of tropical forests and biodiversity, and he is the founding Director of the Centre for Global Wood Security. His group uses intensive field study, remote sensing, global mapping, land-use modelling, and environmental economics to tackle key questions in forest ecology, management, and conservation, with a focus on issues of global policy significance. 

David Edwards | University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences

David Reiner is a political scientist and Professor of Technology Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School, where he is Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group. His research focuses on energy and environmental policy, with a particular emphasis on the politics of climate change and the social acceptability of low-carbon or net-negative mitigation options for achieving net zero targets. He is an advisor to government, industry and non-governmental organisations on energy and environmental policy, and is frequently interviewed in national and international media. 

David Reiner | University of Cambridge Judge Business School

Elna Heimdal Nilsson is a Professor at Combustion Physics at Lund University and Head of Department at School of Aviation, as well as Assistant Director of CESTAP. Elna is involved in research concerning chemical kinetics in combustion processes. The research is mainly development of chemical kinetics models of a range of fuels, fossil fuels as well as biofuels.

Elna Heimdal Nilsson | Lund University Research Portal

Ewa Marek is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge, where she leads the Energy Reactions and Carriers Group. Her research focuses on sustainable and renewable ways to generate heat, power, and chemicals, using her expertise in the power and chemical sectors to forge pathways towards a net-zero future. She also investigates the production, application and processing of new fuels and energy vectors. 

Dr Ewa Marek | Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Fredrik N. G. Andersson is Associate Professor of Economics at Lund University. His research examines climate change, industrial transformation, and the long-term evolution of economic policy. He explores how historical transformations can inform the transition to a low-carbon economy and how learning and institutional change shape pathways of change. Through both research and policy engagement, he contributes to debates on how governments and markets can work together to steer transitions that are economically viable and environmentally sustainable.

Fredrik N. G. Andersson | Lund University Research Portal

Lynn Dicks is Professor of Ecology at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. She leads a research group working on sustainable agriculture and insect conservation, and teaches ecology and conservation on the Cambridge Natural Sciences degree course. She is a co-lead of the Centre for Landscape Regeneration, where she conducts research at the interface between agro-ecology, policy, and the food and farming industry. Lynn is also a co-chair of Natural England’s Science Advisory Committee (NESAC).

Lynn Dicks | University of Cambridge Department of Zoology 

Moa Petersén is an Associate Professor in Digital Cultures at Lund University. Her research explores how technology is implemented, imagined, and integrated into everyday life, focusing on the social and ethical challenges that accompany technological change. Petersén examines how new systems—such as cashless payment infrastructures—affect inclusion, accessibility, and individual rights. She is particularly interested in the social consequences of digitalization, asking who is empowered or excluded when new technologies are adopted. 

Moa Petersén | Lund University Research Portal

Per Becker is Professor of Risk and Sustainability at Lund University, Professor of Leadership and Command & Control at the Swedish Defence University, and Extraordinary Professor of Environmental Sciences and Management at North-West University. His research interests focus on the systemic interactions between the physical environment, social organisation and social behaviour in relation to societal safety, security and sustainability. Especially on issues of governance, collaboration, risk and vulnerability, on what makes society resilient to disturbances, disruptions and disasters, and on capacity development as an intentional process for increasing such resilience.

Per Becker | Lund University Research Portal

The conference is organised by the Research Board and the Sustainability Forum at Lund University, in collaboration with Cambridge Zero, University of Cambridge.

• Erik Mackie, Head of Research Engagement, Cambridge Zero, University of Cambridge
• Fariborz Zelli, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Lund University
• Jenny Palm, Head of department, The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), Lund University
• Jessica Almqvist, Deputy dean, Faculty of Law, Lund University
• Margaret McNamee, Deputy dean, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University
• Stephen Davison, Director of Strategy, Cambridge Zero, University of Cambridge
• Stina Lundkvist, Project manager, Sustainability Forum, Lund University
• Ylva van Meeningen, Research coordinator, Sustainability Forum, Lund University