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  • Towards Zero-Waste: Sweden–India Project Shares Early Insights on Circular Bio-Waste Solutions

    A screenshot of the Zoom session of the BioCircularR project's workshop in November 2025.
    The BioCircularR project team met for a workshop on November 25, 2025.
    Published Dec 04, 2025

    On 25 November 2025, researchers and stakeholders from Sweden and India gathered for a joint dissemination and consultation workshop under the project Towards Zero-Waste through a Bio-based Circular R...

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  • Camilla Lo Giudice Wins Best In-Person Poster Award at the IAMC Annual Meeting 2025

    Camilla Lo Giudice receives the Best In-Person Poster Award at the IAMC Annual Meeting 2025.
    Camilla Lo Giudice receives the Best In-Person Poster Award at the IAMC Annual Meeting 2025.
    Published Dec 02, 2025

    The Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC) organizes every year, since 2007, a conference on energy modelling, climate change, and resource assessment. This year, the conference was held fro...

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  • KTH dES in COP30 in Belém

    The photo shows the convention center in Belem, Brazil in which COP30 was held in November 2025.
    COP30 was held at the Hangar Convention Centre in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025. Photo: Åsa Persson
    Published Nov 26, 2025

    At the UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP30) in Belem, Brazil, the Division of Energy Systems (dES) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology highlighted how rigorous energy systems analysis can supp...

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  • From Italian Dolomites to Swedish Archipelago: Interview with Soroush Zarghami

    Soroush Zarghami and some of his colleagues in dES, on the rooftop of the M building.
    Soroush (middle) and some of his colleagues in dES. Photo: Francesco Gardumi
    Published Nov 24, 2025

    Soroush Zarghami, a PhD student at the University of Trento (UNITN), recently finished a 6-month research visit in the Energy Systems division. In this piece, Maryna Henrysson and Francesco Gardumi ta...

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  • Who Gets to Model the Future? The Openmod Workshop 2025 and the Case for Inclusive Energy Modelling

    More Than Just Better Code: Who is in the Room Shapes the Models
    Published Apr 03, 2025

    Energy models shape policy. But who shapes the models when access to these tools remains deeply uneven? The problem is not a shortage of knowledge; it’s who gets to wield it and when. Many modellers, ...

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  • Student Theses in Energy Systems Drive Global Sustainability and Local Innovation

    Allyson Steffany Botett with her supervisors in her master thesis presentation day.
    Allyson Steffany Botett with her supervisors in her master thesis presentation day.
    Published Nov 27, 2024

    Students collaborating with the Energy Systems (ES) Division for their thesis projects have the unique opportunity to work with real-world challenges and make meaningful contributions to global and lo...

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  • Sustainable Energy Technology Programme Students Drive Impact in Climate-Neutral Stockholm Project

    Published Nov 27, 2024

    Recently, four students from various KTH programs—Magdalena Smolic, Zin Haji, Hsu-Kai Weng,—alongside a student from Uppsala University, Maurine Luquet, collaborated with Stockholm Vatten och Avfall, ...

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  • Consortium meeting of the EU project IAM COMPACT here at KTH

    IAMcompact KTH’s team members – Dr.Francesco Gardumi, Chamindie Senaratne and PhD student Camilla Lo
    IAMcompact KTH’s team members – Dr.Francesco Gardumi, Chamindie Senaratne and PhD student Camilla Lo Giudice
    Published Oct 03, 2024

    On September 30th and October 1st, KTH had the privilege of hosting the 2024 General Assembly of the IAM COMPACT project. Our team from the Energy Systems division has been involved since last year an...

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  • KTH dES at the EMP-G in Trieste: enhancing capacity bulding and cooperation for a sustainable future

    Trainers and students of the 2024 CLEWs track of the ICTP energy modelling platform summer school.
    Trainers and students of the 2024 CLEWs track of the ICTP energy modelling platform summer school.
    Published Aug 29, 2024

    The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) took part in August at the Energy Modelling Platform – Joint Global Training School 2024 (EMP-G) hosted by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICT...

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  • KTH Africa Days Event: Fostering Collaboration and Sustainability

    Published Feb 07, 2024

    In a bid to underscore its dedication to fostering collaboration and sustainable development initiatives across Africa, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) recently hosted its much-anticipated Afr...

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  • KTH secures funding for Climate Compatible Growth

    Group picture
    Participants from a CCG workshop in Kenya about “Whole energy system model” in May 2023. KTH’s Agnese Beltramo and Roberto Heredia lead it together with two colleagues from the University College London.
    Published Jan 08, 2024

    KTH has secured extended funding for the Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) project*. The collaborative initiative, targeting effective energy sector policies in countries of the global south, has alread...

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  • KTH dES publishes a new groundbreaking open-access course on clean cooking access modeling

    Cover page of the OnStove's course in the Opena Learn platform.
    Published Dec 08, 2023

    OnStove, the revolutionary geospatial clean cooking tool developed by the division of Energy Systems (dES) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, takes a giant leap forward with the release of an open-...

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  • New Doctoral Position for Innovative Climate-Land-Energy-Water Systems Modeling

    Published Nov 14, 2023

    The Division of Energy Systems within the Department of Energy Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), opens new Doctoral position focused on advancing integrated Climate-Land-Energy-Wa...

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  • New Assistant Professor opening in digitalization for sustainable energy systems

    Published Sep 08, 2023

    The School of Industrial Engineering and Management at KTH is pleased to announce an opening for the position of Assistant Professor in the field of Energy Technology with specialization in Digitaliza...

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  • How research cooperation could contribute to achieving the Vision 2030 in the Nordic Region?

    Fast track vision 2030 strategy
    Published Sep 08, 2023

    The Nordic Council of Ministers has a vision to make the Nordic Region the most sustainable and integrated region in the world by 2030. How can research contribute to realizing Nordisk Råd og Nordisk ...

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  • Innovative PhD Opportunity: Circular Recovery Models for Sustainable Urban Waste Management

    Published Sep 07, 2023

    Are you passionate about sustainability and eager to contribute to a circular economy? KTH Royal Institute of Technology invites motivated individuals to apply for an exciting PhD position within the ...

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  • Exciting PhD Opportunity in Energy Systems Research at KTH Royal Institute of Technology!

    Published Sep 07, 2023

    Are you passionate about advancing renewable energy systems and sustainability? KTH Royal Institute of Technology invites aspiring researchers to apply for an exciting new PhD position at the Division...

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  • KTH researcher is a lead author in the GEO-7 report

    Participants at the meeting
    The first Global Author's Meeting for the GEO-7 Report was in Bangkok.
    Published Mar 23, 2023

    In March 2023, hundreds of environmental experts gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, for the first authors' meeting of the Seventh Edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) of the UN Environment Pr...

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  • Replacing wood and charcoal stoves in Africa could save half a million lives every year

    Two people hauling bundles of chopped wood on their shoulders on a rural road.
    A new study assigns actual value to the negative aspects of traditional cooking methods in the developing world, including lost time due to collecting wood or other burnable biomass. Pictured, women carry firewood for cooking at home in Kenya. (Photo: Youssef Boulkaid)
    Published Jan 12, 2023

    Half a million lives could be saved each year in sub-Saharan Africa by taking action to reduce reliance on traditional wood- and charcoal-burning stoves, a new study shows.

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  • “I want my research to matter”

    Published Mar 17, 2021

    He is passionate about sustainable development. Francesco Fuso Nerini’s motive to make his work known to others is simple: to make a difference. ”As researchers we have a duty to produce quality resea...

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