Arctic Seminar series: Vattenfall and the electricity production in the north
Welcome to the third installation of our Arctic Seminar series in collaboration with Environmental Humanities Laboratory! We will hear from Mikael Nordlander at Vattenfall who will talk about Vattenfall and their role in the electricity production expansion in the north, its implications and what is done for it to be a sustainable transition.
Time: Wed 2024-04-17 12.15 - 13.00
Location: Climate Action Centre, Teknikringen 43
Language: English
Participating: Mikael Nordlander
Event description
With Mikael Nordlander from Vattenfall we will learn and discuss how the large increase in electricity need will be supplied when the green transition happens in the north of Sweden. Issues related to the expansion will be discussed, like what challenges comes with electricity production, hydrogen production and sharing land.
Time: 12.15-13.00 17th of April 2024
Location: Teknikringen 43, KTH Climate Action Centre
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The Arctic Seminar Series
Advancing Sustainability in the Arctic and Beyond: Opportunities and Challenges in the Swedish North is a new seminar series organized by the KTH Climate Action Centre and the Division of History of Science, Technology, and Environment together with the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory.
Through a series of public seminars involving an array of leading experts and key stakeholders, Advancing Sustainability in the Arctic and Beyond will explore the opportunities, complexities, and possible conflicts associated with the sweeping economic, social, and environmental transformation taking place in the northern reaches of Sweden and other parts of the Arctic. While the Arctic is the place on Earth where the effects of climate change are most dramatic, it is also a region of ambitious new industries and abundant natural resources, including renewable energy and strategic minerals badly needed for the green transition, and the home to indigenous people with longstanding claims to lands that are closely tied to their cultures and ways of life. As the seminar series will explore, this convergence of different values and stakeholders in the Swedish North—that are sometimes in direct conflict with one another—makes the Arctic a region of great relevance for the implementation of sustainable development on a local, national, and global level