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 [...]
November 28, 2008 – 11:51 am
The last couple of days I’ve been involved in major business deals and opportunities regarding renewable energy in a number of interesting markets. We are looking at major biomass projects for district heating and power in Belarus, clean energy transformation in Chile, including solar, biomass and wind. A port for biofuels in the mediterranean to [...]
November 20, 2008 – 10:53 pm
We have severe unsustainability issues on the planet. Global warming is a fact. So far almost everybody seems to agree. But whether the global warming is man-made or not remains a debate despite the fact that thousands of well-merited climate scientists have collaborated to reach the IPCC conclusions. Here is a recent debate article by [...]
November 20, 2008 – 1:39 pm
We are at a point when the global issues are widely known and accepted. Although spreading awareness will continue to play an important role, we now really need to move towards implementing the solutions. This is of course relevant for both politicians, companies and individuals. This means that there is a strong need to translate [...]
November 18, 2008 – 11:00 pm
Tonight at the Green Drink at Café Opera in Stockholm, we had an excellent presentation by Johan Rockström, the head of Stockholm Environment Institute. He is together with his team participating in the IPCC work and he is probably the most influential academic environmentalist from the Nordics right now. He gave a very alarming picture [...]
November 13, 2008 – 6:15 pm
On Tuesday I had the opportunity to participate as a speaker at Stockholm Cleantech Venture Day, a conference with a focus on bringing together investors and entrepreneurs in the cleantech area. The leading organiser was STING, a leading cleantech incubator in Sweden. Globe Forum was a co-organizer. The conference featured many good speakers and a [...]
