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Multidisciplinary Swedish node

Collaboration between researchers from departments spread across five Swedish universities and Rossby centre (SMHI).

Providing world-leading climate-terrestrial biosphere interactions

for the international Earth system modelling community and its science agenda.

Societal dialogue

in the spirit of social learning by both scientists and stakeholders.

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Forest in a swamp. Picture.

22 Nov 2022 | News

How climate is affected by forest management – a new project to helt guide European forestry

MERGE is one of the partners in CLIMB-FOREST - a new Horizon Europe project that will investigate how the climate is affected by different ways of managing the forest. There is a lot of expertise in each individual country, but there is no coordinated overview of Europe’s forests and forest health.

Skog med träd täckta av dimma. Foto.

15 Nov 2022 | News

Old, unprotected forests might disappear by the 2070s in Sweden

Swedish, previously uncut forests have been converted to plantations at a steady rate since 2003. In a new study, MERGE-researcher Anders Ahlström and his research team find that old forests have been cut and lost by ∼1.4% per year since 2003, and at this rate they will disappear by the 2070s.

A cat sitting on the edge of a mountain, watching the ice melt. Illustration.

8 Nov 2022 | News

IPCC: Summary for All

Just before the start of COP27, IPCC released a popular science version of its latest report on climate change. Deliang Chen, professor at MERGE and BECC, is one of the authors and comments the summary, which is also available for download.

Markku Rummukainen. Photo: Lund University

8 Nov 2022 | News

The UN’s climate change conference COP27 – topics on the agenda

The UN’s annual climate change conference takes place this year in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Over the course of two weeks, representatives of the world’s nations will gather to discuss how to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement and contribute to the climate transition.

A group of people standing on the beach, listening to a teacher speaking

3 Nov 2022 | News

Reflections from ClimBEco summer meeting 2022

After this summer meeting, one cannot understate the importance of and unmistakeable delight in meeting in-person after a long, pandemic-sized hiatus.

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Five people standing with their feet in the water. Photograph.

ClimBEco Graduate Research School

ClimBEco is a two-year graduate research school connected to CEC (Centre for Environmental and Climate Science). It promotes interdisciplinary research, partly within the MERGE research areas, by supporting PhD students in networking and learning across different fields of study.