Poland holds back the new climate targets in Europe. Not very good in relations to ambitious goals. But is the hero the one that sets the highest goals or the one that achieves them?
Poland deserve some commend due to the fact that the country has decreased their CO2-emissions by 30 percent since 1990, during the same period Spain has [...]
Author Archives: gustavgorecki
Will Poland be a hero also in the new climate protocol?
December 16, 2009 – 10:32 am
DHL Innovation Award
December 3, 2009 – 12:03 pm
DHL Innovation Award was held at the DHL Innovation Center in Bonn December 1st. An inspiring day with seminars and award cermony, focusing on logistics.
First of all I was really impressed over the innovation center. A whole building focusing only on innovation for the company. A lot of companies would benefit from such a dedicated investment in [...]
2 degrees might be too much…
November 20, 2009 – 2:57 pm
László Szombatfalvy’s new book “Vår tids största utmaningar” (The big challenges of today) is really interesting.
He assesses the risk of 4 big mega threats of today: The pollution of the environment, the climate change, the political violence, and the world poverty.
The risks associated with these threats are much higher than the risk we normally accept within [...]
Indigenous Innovation in China
November 12, 2009 – 2:34 pm
Today I attended an interesting seminar about innovation in China, arranged by Vinnova.
A Chinese GDB growth of 8.9% Q3 2009, no crisis there….By 2020 China will invest 2.5% of their GDP in R&D in order to become an innovation-oriented society.
The problem in China according to Mr John Chiang from Peking University is a lack of entrepreneurship. The [...]
Did the temperature increase during the last decade?
November 11, 2009 – 10:12 am
According to Pew Research Center only 57 percent of the Americans believe that the world is getting warmer, a drop from 71 percent since last year. 36 percent believe the temperature increase is caused by humans, down from 47 percent.
Dagens Nyheter writes about this in todays editorial. They also write that the temperature has not increased during the [...]
Impressed by Polish sustainable innovators
October 16, 2009 – 11:15 am
This week I´m travelling around Poland to select sustainable innovators for our Onstage Innovators’ Contest which will be held during our forum in Gdańsk October 28-29: http://www.gfbn.com/pages/gdansk-innovators-contest
Since we are trying to be a sustainable company I´ve done most of the interviews over Skype using their video feature, really impressed I must say, saving a lot of time, [...]
