December 19, 2008 – 4:01 pm
This week the EU parliament decided to approve the 20-20-20 goals, including a scheme for auctioning and distribution of emission rights within different industries. Now, the final acceptance by member countries is seen as a formality in the process, since all countries are behind the decision. Read more here (English) or here, here (swedish). Ok, [...]
December 18, 2008 – 3:03 pm
I had another meeting with representatives from the Chilean government yesterday. Again, it was pointed out that sustainability transformation has a very high priority for Chile, especially in areas related to renewable energy and energy efficiency, since energy security is a great concern for Chile, at present very dependent on oil and gas from Argentina. [...]
December 18, 2008 – 2:44 pm
I have previously talked about the global race among cities to become a leader in sustainability, since there is a clear connection to regional growth. What really connects regional sustainability and regional growth is innovation. It is by nurturing innovation in the sustainability area that a region simultaneously becomes more sustainable and builds showcases and [...]
December 10, 2008 – 1:23 pm
We know what we know, but we don’t know what we don’t know. The nature of innovation is by definition very decentralised. It happens in all organisations, but innovations that challenge existing structures are predominantly growing in smaller organisations. These organisations are spread globally and they are hard to find. This is why we don’t [...]
December 9, 2008 – 5:22 pm
When we at Globe Forum started to focus on sustainability innovation a couple of years ago, we felt that we were moving into areas that were in the outskirts of what the broader base of companies were actually interested in. But we were prepared to do it because we felt that a shift had to [...]
December 8, 2008 – 3:26 pm
The fashion and textiles industry is under great pressure to become more sustainable. The reason is that is currently highly unsustainable, despite the fact that this very consumer oriented industry is highly dependent on volatile perceptions among their customers. Today, the textiles industry use roughly 8000 different chemicals in the processing from cotton fields to [...]
December 4, 2008 – 6:49 pm
1/4 An impressive number, whether it is profit growth, waste reduction or even percentage of a new power in any field. If you are a long distance runner, and you beat your opponents by 1/4, you do a great victory. But how about doing 3/4? Well, all of us knows, that the amount energy, that [...]
December 4, 2008 – 11:13 am
Back in 2007, before the great mortgage crisis, bank failures, acquisitions and the like, I worked for a leading U.S. bank with more than 50,000 employees, “Fair, Caring, Human, Dynamic and Driven” as their core values in an award-winning IT division with more than 2000 technology professionals nationwide. During my tenure at the bank we [...]
