52 climate weeks a year – at SLU

Climate change fundamentally impacts all parts of society and adaptation needs to be at the core of development. Major challenges include transforming agriculture and food systems into resilient systems with low emissions, and balancing forestry’s role to store carbon and provide biomaterials with biodiversity conservation and resilience of local communities.

SLU’s research and partnerships linked to climate are multiple and target context specific solutions for increased resilience and adaptation as well as mitigation. Here are some examples related to global development:

• Reforest Africa. A Regional Research School in Forest Sciences (REFOREST) is a new, innovative, interdisciplinary and unique regional PhD degree programme for training future generation forest scientists in Africa.
• Drylands Transform. Pathways and challenges towards a transformation of landscapes, livestock and livelihoods. A research project in African Drylands.
• ”We are planting trees in Africa”: Swedish discourses and local effects of carbon forestry projects in African localities
• Megaherbivore impact on ecosystem and Earth system functioning. The large plant-eating mammals weighing at least a ton as an adult, are severely endangered. What happens if they disappear?
• Strengthened Institutions for a Sustainable Climate. The programme aims to tackle challenges posed by climate change, sustainable urbanisation, growing emissions and explore viable adaptation potentials.
• LoCoFoRest – Locally Controlled Forest Restoration. How can we scale up restoration of forest landscapes while securing the prosperity of local communities and maintaining and improving ecosystem services?
• Strengthening of Ethiopias forest sector.
• Restoring degraded tropical landscapes with trees.
• Agroforestry network. A platform for international agroforestry practise, based in Sweden and initiated by Vi Agroforestry to promote the use of agroforestry in low-income countries.
• Focali Forest, Climate, and Livelihood research network.

Climate related resources

• Scientific publications for SDG 13 Climate Action. SLU researchers publish scholarly works related to the SDGs. Here you can find publication lists and visualisations for SLU research output for goal number 13 Climate Action.
• Topic: Climate change. Here you can find a selection of reports, books, policy briefs as well as information about partnerships dealing with climate change.
• Healthy harvests in a changing climate – a resource package.

Climate conversations at SLU

SLU Global and the future platforms organise a series of climate conversations during 2021 and 2022. Some of them are internal dialogues and others are open seminars. Keep track of what is happening here.