Cold spells in northern Europe is dampening the interest in the ongoing climate conference in Mexico. However, climate change is all about the big picture – don’t let local variations fool you. Graphs from NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).…
Monthly Archives: November 2010
A few hours of education and fun!
Top 10 TED Talks of all time 1. Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight 2. Jeff Han: Touchscreen demo foreshadows the iPhone 3. David Gallo: Underwater astonishments 4. Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo 5. Arthur Benjamin: Lightning…
Posted in Miscellaneous
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…
The low-carbon advantage
In an interview with the Times, Nicholas Stern recently said that; “The US will increasingly see the risks of being left behind, and 10 years from now they would have to start worrying about being shut out of markets because…
Posted in Climate Change
Green jobs could help EU influence US on climate
EUOBSERVER / WASHINGTON – Europe’s main chance of forcing tougher environmental standards in a reluctant US lies in greater competition over green jobs, say Washington insiders. “What I believe will really alter the US environmental approach is when people see…
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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
Leapfrogging energy
It’s well known that developing countries did a technological “leapfrog” in telecommunications by largely skipping the stage of fixed lines and going directly for mobile connections. Today you can’t visit even the remotest village in the poorest of countries without…
Posted in Climate Change
Back from Africa
I’ve now left east Africa after five extremely exciting weeks in Uganda and Tanzania. Between safaris and lounging on Zanzibar with Johanna I’ve had time to write on two research reports, read a lot and learn about low-carbon innovation deployment…
Posted in Climate Change, Miscellaneous
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…
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