Lunch seminars

Let’s come together to build and strengthen the community around absolute sustainability at DTU!

Upcoming seminars: We announce coming seminars as soon as they are planned. Sign up for our community list to make sure to get the invitation HERE

Sign-up for coming Lunch Seminars:

• 19^th February 2026: Lunch Seminar - The link between Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessment (AESA) and corporate sustainability claims LINK
• 19^th March 2026: Lunch Seminar - From planetary boundaries to planetary politics? LINK
• 16^th April 2026: Lunch Seminar - Scaling of circular business models in Europe's circular economy LINK
• 7^th May 2026: Lunch Seminar - Too late, too little, for whom? Considerations on how we respond to socio-ecological crises LINK
• 18^th June 2026: Lunch Seminar - Communicating (absolute) sustainability science LINK

Format: We offer lunch and room for inspiration and dialogue. A space for us to discuss, develop and understand: Absolute sustainability.

At our monthly seminars we will:

• Share news from the Centre
• Present scientific topics
• Discuss newest achievements
• Invite to Centre-strategic co-development activities.

And we plan to invite you to co-host specific topics, to make this a shared community:

• Time: Monthly seminar, 12:00-13:00
• Place: DTU Library, Kongens Lyngby
• Virtual live streaming: High-quality YouTube, LinkedIn and Vimeo live-streaming
  

Overview previous seminars: 

• Lunch Seminar #15 (11th December, 12:00-13:00 CET ) Talk - Living within Limits: preventing sustainability rebounds through design and policy - Daniela Pigosso, Professor at DTU Construct, Section of Design for Sustainability. Project lead Reboundless, and Daniel Guzzo Tenure Track Researcher at DTU Construct, Section of Design for Sustainability
• Lunch Seminar #14 (20th November, 12:00-13:00 CET ) Talk - Digitalisation and its impact on our planetary boundaries: Data and Server Parks impact on our environment - Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe, Professor at DTU Electro
• Lunch Seminar #13 (23rd October, 12:00-13:00 CEST) Talk - Circularity readiness as a pathway for Absolute Sustainability: A systematic approach for Circular Economy transition. By Giovana Monteiro Gomes, Tenure-Track Researcher, Tim McAloone, Professor, Daniel Guzzo Tenure-Track Researcher, and Krestine Mougaard Senior Consultant, all from DTU Construct, Section of Design for Sustainability
• Lunch Seminar #12 (11th September 2025, 12:00-13:00 CEST) Talk & Panel debate - Policymaking in Absolute terms? How can research best support planetary policies? By Sara Monteiro Pires, Senior Scientist at National Food Institute, DTU. Daniela Pigosso, Professor at DTU Construct, Section of Design for Sustainability. Anders Bjørn, Associate researcher, DTU Sustain, Section of Quantitative Sustainability Assessment. Christian Poll, Sustainability advisor at DTU Centre for Absolute Sustainability
• Lunch Seminar #11 (24th June 2025, 12:00-13:00 CEST) Talk - Navigating the Sustainability Maze: How Companies Align with the World They Depend on!- By Chonlawan Thammaraksa, PhD Researcher at the Centre for Absolute Sustainability, DTU Sustain
• Lunch Seminar #10 (15th May 2025, 12:00-13:00 CEST) Talk - Well-Being Economy & Absolute Sustainability Design & Implementation of a Wellbeing Economy. By our dear friend of the Centre Mia Heide, Senior Analyst at WELA - Wellbeing Economy Lab
• Lunch Seminar #9 (22nd April 2025, 12:00-13:00 CEST) Talk - Is my life sustainable? What a life within Planetary Boundaries may (or may not) look like. By Teddy Serrano, PhD Researcher at the Centre for Absolute Sustainability, DTU Sustain ( a behind the scene on some of the research pieces used in the book by Author, Professor & Scientific Director Morten O. A. Sommer)
• Lunch Seminar #8 (20th March 2025) Talks -  Developing mineral resource boundaries for application in absolute environmental sustainability assessment. By Michael Hauschild, Professor and Centre-leadCentre for Absolute Sustainability& Mikołaj Owsianiak, Senior Researcher at DTU Sustain
• Lunch Seminar #7 (24th October 2024): Talk - Operationalisation of Absolute Sustainability Targets: An Integrated Approach. Presented by Professor Sami Kara from Sustainable Manufacturing at UNSW. QnA set by Professor Michael Hauschild
• Lunch Seminar #6 (16th May, 2024): Talk & Panel debate - Social Tipping Points & Systemic change. Discussion on the Need for Behavioral Change and the Role of Technology. By Rune Baastrup, Director Danish Board of Technology and co-author of the book: After the party - New Pathways for a Better Society without Growth
• Lunch Seminar #5 (18th April, 2024): Talk - True Sustainability Stories. A talk on navigating sustainability in marketing. By Christian Poll, Sustainability expert at The Centre for Absolute Sustainability & advisor for the Danish Consumer Ombudsman
• Lunch Seminar #4 (14th March, 2024): Talk - From Relative to Absolute in 20 min A deep-dive into the notion of Absolute Environmental Sustainability. By Michael Hauschild, Professor and Centre Lead at the Centre for Absolute Sustainability
• Lunch Seminar #3 (2023): Talk - 1) Four and a half planets for Christmas? - Tim C. McAloone, Professor and Section Head at DTU Section of Design for Sustainability,and 2) Carbon Dioxide Removal, by Thomas Howard, Professor at the DTU Centre for Entrepreneurship  
• Lunch Seminar #2 (23rd November 2023): Talk - Absolute Sustainability: A tool to realign our lifestyles with the planetary Boundaries, by Teddy Serrano, PhD researcher at DTU Section for Qualitative Sustainability Assessments, and Manon Villers, Phd researcher at DTU Section Design for Sustainability
• Lunch Seminar #1 (10th October 2023): Talk - 1) Absolute Environmental Sustainability By Michael Hauschild, professor and Centre Lead at the Centre for absolute Sustainability, Tim McAloone, Professor and Section lead at DTU Section of Design for Sustainability. 2) Science Based Targets what's up and down, by Anders Bjørn, associate professor DTU Section for Qualitative Sustainability Assessments, and 3) Rebound Effects a design task, by Daniella Pigosso, Professor at DTU Section of Design for Sustainability