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Swedes put environment on top of their EU list
Today I am blogging from the train between Stockholm and Gothenburg. Spring has made every tree explode into green leaves and flowers, and I can’t wait to take a walk in the forest. Between the...
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Ministers urge Sweden’s Vattenfall to stop investments in fossil fuels
One of Vattenfall’s coal-power plants in Germany. Photo: Vattenfall. During some time there has been quite a big environmental debate in Sweden about the state-owned energy company Vattenfall....
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World leaders gather in Sweden to discuss sustainability
Tällberg Forum. Photo: Tällberg Foundation. July is approaching and lots of Swedes are preparing for their holidays, but many things are still happening on the environmental front. In Almedalen on the...
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Heated discussions about the meeting in Åre
Photo: Gunnar Seijbold/ Swedish Government Offices. This past weekend environment ministers from the EU countries have met in Åre to discuss the European strategy before the global climate negotiations...
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Scientists speak their minds
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Photo: Helena Ledmyr/KVA Science has traditionally been rather separated from the discussion about how society should act. When it comes to global warming this...
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Green election
Environment spokespersons from all the parliament parties were being questioned by SSNC earlier this week. Sweden’s general election is getting closer and closer, and the election campaigns are visible...
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From journalist to fish advocate parliamentarian
Isabella Lövin in the European Parliament. Photo: Fredrik Hjerling. Isabella Lövin started out as a journalist and opened the eyes of a lot of Swedes with her book Tyst hav (“Silent seas”) which came...
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Sustainability in Stockholm, 40 years later
Panel-discussion Summing up what has happened since 1972. The secretary-general of the Stockholm Conference in 1972 Maurice Strong is the first at the left of the panelists. Note the Swedish king in...
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Politicians in Tranås get paid for cycling to sessions
Now Matilda Forsärla gets equally paid as her colleagues who take the car to council sessions. Photo: private. I suppose it isn’t very different from in most other countries, but in Sweden you often...
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The new must-have: A local Future Week
Anders Persson’s son Edvin has become the poster boy for the Swedish Future Weeks. Photo: Framtidsveckan. It all started with the artist Anders Persson in Söderhamn (who is among other things known for...
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