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…
TV4 (Swedish)
This morning I was interviewed by TV4 about the op-ed in Dagens Nyheter (see below). The clip can be viewed here: .
A Bretton Woods for the Climate
I can now call myself a published author! At a recent World Bank conference in Stockholm FORES published the book “A Bretton Woods for the Climate” co-authored by me and two colleagues. In two parts and just over 200 pages…
Political trilemma?!
Interesting article about the “trilemma” of democracy, national sovereignty and globalization. According to Dani Rodrik at Harvard one can’t have all three without one of them getting compromised. You can have democracy and a strong nation state, but then have…
Porter or Pollution Haven?
A research paper that I wrote while at Harvard last year has been awarded by the Swedish Competition Authority (Konkurrensverket) and on May 25th (my birthday) I’ll receive 10,000 Swedish crowns at an award ceremony in Stockholm, nice! The paper…
Nobel Prize mania
I just learned that I’ll attend a World Bank conference in May together with some of my best and oldest friends Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics 1972 Robert Solow, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics 1987 James Mirrlees, Nobel…
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Earth Awards 2010
The Earth Awards 2010 is now calling for submissions and the grand prize total is $50,000. I was one of the finalists last year and spent an amazing weekend in New York for the awarding ceremony event at the Four…
My iPhone apps
I just recently bought my first iPhone and it’s possible the best buy of my life. I’ve found some nice apps and thought I would share them. Facebook – Goes without saying, with push service Skype – Obviously Google -…
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