Surely nobody has missed the news of the high prices for electricity over the past week. How can it have come to this? Couldn’t we have seen this coming?? At 4pm on Monday, the price of electricity before taxes and charges in the south of Sweden was SEK 6.49 per kWh. Yet another new record! … Continue reading “Smart energy usage must be rewarded”
Never before has there been such a massive focus on an international climate change conference. Much of the discussions concern the transition to a climate neutral society that we all know is going far too slowly. Strong and rapid actions are now our last chance to reach the 1.5 degree target. Naturally, one of the … Continue reading “The transition in focus in Glasgow”
As the theme for my blog this week, I have chosen two different examples of international collaboration within the sustainability area. On Monday and Tuesday 27-28 September, we organised a fourth joint workshop on the theme of sustainable development, together with Tokyo University, Stockholm University and the Karolinska Institute. This year’s conference addressed five different … Continue reading “Broad discussions and sustainable solutions”
In an article on the KTH website, we commented on the significance of the latest and sixth climate assessment report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In that post, we pointed out that the news flow is increasingly focused on the various threats that can be linked to global warming. One example … Continue reading “With focus on solutions”
KTH has set clear sustainability goals for research: We need to make more strategic investments in this area and we need to create new opportunities for interdisciplinary research and education with a sustainability focus. These investments must also be made visible and accessible. An exciting new collaboration has been entered into with Akademiska Hus that … Continue reading “Campuses can be used as living labs”
First top marks for the environment audit and then an excellent rating in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2021. Both the above indicate that KTH is genuinely living up to its goal of being a leading university of technology for the climate change and a net carbon zero society. As many of you know, … Continue reading “An important week for the climate”
