The finance industry is going through dramatic changes these days as we know. What is clear is that all financial institutions need to have a more long-term and more sustainbale approach to their business.
One area which is growing quite rapidly is social investing, i e investing in projects where the primary benefit is of social [...]
Author Archives: Niclas Ihrén
Social Investing
February 20, 2009 – 10:17 am
Climate saving lo-tech: District heating
February 15, 2009 – 10:41 pm
Around the world energy systems are developed very differently for geographical and for historical reasons. This means that in a number of markets we have solutions that may be well-established in the local market, but with a great potential for expansion globally. Sometimes the geographical context is so unique, so that the export of the [...]
Vertical farming
February 15, 2009 – 9:46 pm
A new concept that has created quite a lot of buzz lately is “vertical farming“, i e indoor farming in high rise bildings with many floors. In essence, vertical farming addresses a few of the limitations of traditional farming;
Limited land
Vertical farming is a way of addressing the needs for agricultural land with continued growth of [...]
Nuclear revival
February 6, 2009 – 10:36 am
Nuclear power had its boom in the eighties, but since the nineties growth has been slow globally and nuclear has been in decline in many of the developed markets. This decline has been driven by cheap fossil fuel and also by the inherent problems and complexities with nuclear. But in the light of rapid growth [...]
Corporate exposure to Sustainability and CSR
February 6, 2009 – 10:03 am
We can expect major changes to happen over the coming years regarding global issues including climate, energy, water, conflict etc. The challenge for companies and other organisations is to translate the global issues into what they really mean to them in terms of risk and opportunity. Only when you have done that analysis , CSR [...]
Change you must
January 19, 2009 – 10:41 am
I found a good article in the form of a recommendation to President Obama, called “Change you must” on the OilDrum, a good source as always.
The article stresses the imbalance between US consumption of fossil fuels and US production of tthe same. This imbalance has been escalating continuously over the last 40 years, and it [...]
Green innovation gone wild
January 15, 2009 – 9:57 pm
It is indeed great fun to work with innovation. We come across a lot of interesting innovators and innovations, and mostly it is very inspiring. Once and a while though, you run into stuff that is a little bit too crazy. But quite often, those really crazy ideas open up your thinking to other new [...]
Underestimated potential for renewable growth by IEA
January 11, 2009 – 10:39 am
As we all know, there are strong industrial interests who wants to see growth in the renewables sector. But unfortunately, the industrial interests that are more interested in seeing growth in conventional energy are even bigger. A recent article shows how IEA, the International Energy Agency systematically underestimated the growth in renewables very significantly. What’s [...]
Adaptation interest speeding up
January 8, 2009 – 12:56 pm
In the media debate over the last years there has been a strong focus on mitigation efforts regarding climate change. We have been discussing more about how to avoid it than about how to manage the changes that are already happening. This is about to change, but the characteristics of mitigation and adaptation are different.
Mitigation, [...]
Matching Supply and Demand
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, the [...]
