Famous Harvard professor Rob Stavins with a copy of my book (for which he wrote the foreword) at the COP16 conference in Mexico yesterday. And by the way, the book can now be ordered through Bokus
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Irish times
An article about Globe Forum Dublin in Irish times yesterday. I look a bit crazy in the photo but… We need to foster enterprise, forum told … Jakob Rutqvist, director of the environmental programme Fores in Sweden followed, and said…
Can innovation save us?
Today I talked at the Globe Forum conference in Dublin on the topic “can innovation save us?”. I talked about how all projected emission increases globally the coming 40 years is predicted to happen in developing countries. This is also…
Globe Forum Dublin 2010
I’m currently in Dublin attending the Globe Forum sustainable innovation conference. The conference started this morning and it’s promising. Strong support from Irish business and politics – the economic crisis forces people to look ahead and make long term planning.…
Posted in Climate Change, FORES
A Bretton Woods for the Climate 2.0
A new edition of my FORES book “A Bretton Woods for the Climate”, co-authored with Daniel Engström and Martin Ådahl, is now ready. This new edition contains some changes, additions and a new foreword by Harvard professor Robert Stavins. You…
Posted in Climate Change, FORES
East Africa
I’m in East Africa and will not update the blog much the coming weeks, although I will try to find time to write something about perspectives on climate change over here. On October 17-18 I’m attending the Globe Forum Dublin…
Posted in Climate Change, FORES
Carbon trading conference
On October the 20, FORES will host a carbon trading conference in Stockholm with some really interesting international and Swedish speakers and guests. I’ve been the main organizer for the conference and the program, but sadly can’t attend since I’m…
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SvD Brännpunkt (Swedish) today
Today, I and Martin Ådahl is writing on SvD Brännpunkt (Op-Ed page in a large Swedish newspaper) about the “hung parliament” situation in Sweden since the general election last week and why a cooperation between the biggest minority coalition and…
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TV4 (Swedish)
This morning I was interviewed by TV4 about the op-ed in Dagens Nyheter (see below). The clip can be viewed here: .
How to use 100bn climate change euros
Today I and Martin Ådahl publishes an on-ed in prominent Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. The article discusses tax shifting, fiscal vs. corrective taxes and how governments can sensibly use the billions in new income that will soon start to flow…
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