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With the report Nordic Energy Ways in Europe, the Nordic Action Group on Climate and Energy wishes to contribute to the Nordic policy process with a vision as well as proposals for concrete action. The work is based on business experience, academic research and expert analysis. Summary The Nordic countries can by acting together establish the…
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“Seeing Other Countries” aims to promote the mobility of young people within the European Union, and investigate the connection between youth unemployment, mobility and the advance of far-right populist and nationalist movements across Europe.
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In the Baltic Sea region, immigration still constitutes a largely unused resource for development and strengthened competitiveness. Without immigration, populations across all the Baltic Sea states shrink. What happens when demographic pressures push countries of previously and persistently high emigration to rethink their immigration policies? The report Immigration in times of emigration explores the challenges…
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In order to achieve sustainable bioenergy and biofuels in Africa, which is the mandate of Global Challenge’s project ABBBA, a good business case is not enough. We need to focus on local empowerment, gender rights, land tenure, protection of biodiversity and other aspects, that were the focus of the Agri4D conference in Uppsala. ABBBA presented…
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The second day of the high level seminar Towards a sustainable financial system consisted of additional interesting presentations and a concluding panel discussion. The presentations from the second day can be found below. Further documentation will be available soon
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In cooperation with the London School of Economics and the Swedish House of Finance and by support by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Global Challenge hosted the high level seminar “Towards a sustainable financial system” on the 12-13th of September. Some of the Key Note presentations can be accessed here or through Global Utmaning’s Slideshare channel.
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The break-down of Bretton-Woods, the liberalization of global finance and emerging information technologies have created a new environment for financial markets. The 2007-2008 financial crisis has exposed new systemic risks, created uncertainty about the functioning of the financial markets and especially the role of shadow banks and innovative instruments. The marked rise in volumes of…
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“We don’t want what we need and we don’t need what we want”. Migration and integration in the Baltic Sea region is a complex issue. This complexity was highlighted during the expert seminar “Migration, Integration, Europeanization – old and new challenges for policies and actors. The case of Baltic States”, which took place in Warsaw…
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”The system we are living in now is completely unsustainable”. Anna Borgeryd, chairman of Polarbröd, stated this in the introductory speech during the seminar A Real Market Economy – what would it take? 30th of May, organized by Global Challenge and Polarbröd. Laureates of the Utstickar Award, Margrit Kennedy and Bernard Lietaer, discussed the need for monetary…
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The carbon market presents opportunities for the forestry sector. ABBBA has identified a need – of organizations and business people in both Africa and the Nordic countries – to better understand the carbon market and the opportunities and limitations it brings about for forestry investments. With the report “Carbon Market Opportunities within the Forestry Sector”,…
