An evaluation of the environmental benefit of environmental labeling is underway in Mistra´s research programme Entwined. What is the potential, and does labeling provide guidance? Initial results indicate that labeling is complex and doesn´t easily lead to sustainable consumption or more environmentally-friendly products.
The Mistra programme DOM — Domestication of micro-organisms — has progressed to the point of looking for business partners.
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Sustainable Investment Research Platform (SIRP), one of the sub-programmes in Sustainable Investments, has initiated collaboration with ASSET4, an analysis company with offices in Switzerland, the UK,...
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CAPITAL ASSETS NEWS
Mistra has initiated a collaboration with AccountAbility — an independent organization that works to develop new ideas, tools and collaboration to help individuals, institutions and organizations better address climate change and work toward achieving sustainable development.
RESEARCH RESULT
In the early summer, the research programme Mistra-SWECIA held a research seminar on knowledge integration in interdisciplinary research.
RESEARCH RESULT
The research programme Greenchem — Specialty Chemicals from Renewable Resources has organized a Swedish panel at the World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioprocessing in Chicago, together with two other representatives of industrial biotechnology.
NEWS
How forests should be used — and sufficient for many different and uses — is the focus of Mistra´s new research programme Future Forests. The goal is to develop sustainable strategies for forest management, in a future characterized by uncertainty.
CAPITAL ASSETS NEWS
A new report summarises key findings of a workshop on environmental and social issues in real estate investments that took place on 12 June 2008.
FUNDINGS
Use of the forest and homes of the future are in focus for the two new research programmes that Mistra’s Board of Directors has decided to finance. The Board also decided to continue financing three ongoing programmes.
NEWS
Research results are the property of society, and must contribute to its development. Mistra therefore remains committed to investing in research programmes that will make a difference to society, Mistra's Executive Director Ola Engelmark points out in the report.
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