Category Archives: Dependency on fossil fuel
Sweden’s Renewable Majority
51%. The majority of Sweden’s energy comes from renewable sources. It is an achievement that has surpassed both the EU’s target of 49% by 2020 and the Swedish parliament adopted target of 50 percent in 2020.The seeds to this success … Continue reading
Categories: Dependency on fossil fuel, News
Stockholm Hammarby Sjostad: the next steps
The development of sustainable cities can be approached by many ways. As I discussed in my previous blog, the London Olympics showed how a metropolis can mobilise to promote sustainable practices. But we have a very different example here In … Continue reading
Changing conditions in the Arctic
Climate change is creating new challenges, but also opportunities, on which Sweden must take a position and exert an influence. New conditions are emerging for shipping, hunting, fishing, trade and energy extraction, and alongside this new needs are arising for … Continue reading
Categories: Climate Change, Dependency on fossil fuel, News
Sweden will not fear a new oil crise – less dependent on oil…..
The Swedish newspaper – Dagens Industry – said yesterday that the world price of crude oil is highest ever measured in Swedish kronor.Even taking inflation into account the oil is more expensive today than it was during the oil crises … Continue reading
Categories: Bioenergy, Dependency on fossil fuel
Sweden will not fear a new oil crise – less dependent on oil…..
The Swedish newspaper – Dagens Industri - wrote in an article this weekend that the world price of crude oil is highest ever measured in Swedish kronor. Even taking inflation into account the oil is more expensive today than it was during the oil crises of 1970 - century. On friday, Financial Times write in another … Continue reading
Categories: Bioenergy, Dependency on fossil fuel, News, Renewable Energy
The climate issue is about more than activists on the streets
The disappointing failure of our national governments to agree on a climate treaty has prompted the return of protest and more traditional forms of activism that have drawn people onto the streets. The threat to our planet remains as serious, … Continue reading
Biofuels for cars and airplanes
In an article today in The New York Times we could read that the world’s airlines will carry 2.8 billion passengers and 46 million tons of freight this year. They will burn somewhere between 210 million and 220 million tons of fuel … Continue reading
Categories: Bioenergy, Dependency on fossil fuel, News
