November 10, Glasgow, Stockholm, Washington DC, Nairobi, Online
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November 10, Glasgow, Stockholm, Washington DC, Nairobi, Online
COP26 Backdoor, November 10
Pioneering Fossil-free Solutions
Sweden International Business Day (Business Sweden’s Pavilion)
Welcome to day ten of our daily broadcasts from the negotiations floor at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. We bring COP26 to you – live from the diplomatic zone in Glasgow and our hubs in Nairobi, Washington DC and Stockholm.
Tickets to participate in physical hubs:
Glasgow • Stockholm • Washington DC • Nairobi
November 1 • November 2 • November 3 • November 4 • November 5 • November 6 • November 7 • November 8 • November 9 • November 10 • November 11 • November 12
18:30 GMT — Introduction: Pioneering Fossil-free Solutions
Daily COP26 briefing — what is going on in Glasgow and the negotiations with interaction from our Hubs in Stockholm, Nairobi, Washington D.C and online audience.
19:15 GMT — Transformers
Meeting the Paris Agreement goals requires a seismic transformation in all sectors of society. In fact, established businesses have no choice if they want to stay in the game — meet players who, moving ahead of their competition, lead the way through bold climate action.
20:00 GMT — Disruptors
Breaking the bonds of our fossil-fueled economies requires innovation: technologies, policies, and business that upend the status quo and enable emerging companies and initiatives–disruptors–to occupy center stage.
20:35 GMT — Behavioral Change
Big policy and structural transformation aside–changing human mindsets and habits are also part of the picture. Meet experts and doers on incorporating the transformation into how we think, speak, and act.
21:00 GMT — Summary & End Of Broadcast
Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson is an expert moderator, lecturer, and devoted workshop leader in facilitating sustainable development. Catarina moderates for the EU Commission, the Swedish Government, corporations, local municipalities, and universities. She is also content director at A Sustainable Tomorrow and co-founder of the global climate NGO Our Kids´Climate.
Previously with the Times Newspaper London, the U.N. Environment, and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Nick was the Director of Communications and Spokesperson for the Paris Agreement of 2015. More recently, he has served as the Director of Communications for the Global Climate Action Summit that took place in San Francisco in September 2018.
https://www.earthday.orgDr. Sweta Chakraborty is the CEO of North America, We Don’t Have Time. She is a partner at Pioneer Public Affairs. She is also the founder and principal of Adapt to Thrive, a venture that seeks to better inform individuals, businesses, and government entities on the complex, interconnected challenges, such as food insecurity and disease, already existing and emerging from a warming planet.
http://swetachakraborty.comDr. Robert is veterinarian and infectious disease researcher motivated by the need to build resilient community driven - public health systems and solutions to tackle threats to human health and food security. I hold a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine from University of Nairobi (2013) and MSc in Immunology of Infectious Diseases from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2016). I also have extensive experience in social justice advocacy and community centred public health interventions with a focus on marginalized communities including LGBTI persons, people living with disabilities and rural marginalized communities. My current interest is in exploring how climate change influences human and animal health and applying community driven One Health models to build public health resilience and adaptation to climate change.
Emma Modéer Wiking is Head of International Sustainable Business at the Swedish Trade and Invest Council, Business Sweden. In her role, she is responsible for climate action and responsible business conduct. Emma has extensive experience in working with sustainability and enabling partnerships between business, public sector, academia and civil society. She is one of the initiators behind the strategic climate initiative Pioneer the Fossil Free which helps other countries to transform by mapping and matching the world’s largest polluting markets and industry sectors with sustainable solutions and disruptive technologies.
Robert Falck is the CEO and founder of Einride, a Swedish technology company that develops and provides freight mobility solutions based on electric and autonomous vehicles, leading the transition to sustainable transport. A serial entrepreneur, he founded and co-founded several businesses, and worked his way up from the factory floor of major OEMs before starting Einride in 2016. Mr. Falck holds a B.Sc and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, a B.Sc. in Economics and Finance, and a B.Sc. in Business.
Mathematician and agile leader Tomer Shalit is the CPO and Founder of ClimateView, a Swedish climate technology company working with cities around the world to execute their optimal pathway to net-zero faster. With over 20 years of technology experience, he previously helped large corporations tackle complex problems and execute transformational projects through agile methodologies. He holds numerous patents and is passionate about agent-based modeling, which he considers to be the answer to some of the world’s most pressing problems.
Ingmar is serial entrepreneur within financial communication and nominated for a DI Gasell Award, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year, Sweden’s Environmental Influencer 2018, and International Gamechanger of the Year 2020, and Green Warrior 2021. Ingmar Rentzhog has been the chairman of the environmental think tank Global Challenge. He is on the board of Naventus Corporate Finance. He’s a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality and European Climate Policy Task Force and he was in 2022 appointed a European Climate Pact Ambassador by the European Commission.
https://www.wedonthavetime.orgMaster of Sience from Chalmers University of Technology. Long career in chemical industry with several CEO positions in large global corporations and has been Chairman of the Swedish Chemicals Association. Now Chairman of the BioInnovation fund and board member of a few mid size companies. Most important is my job as CEO of EasyMining that has developed,and is commercializing, circular technologies that produces nutrients in a way that directly and indirectly is reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Viktoria Karsberg is VP Corporte Identity and Group Communications at SSAB and has been involved in SSAB´s transformation towards fossil-free steel and the HYBRIT initiative from the very beginning. She has a background as a journalist and communications consultant before she joined the steel industry ten years ago. She has since then held top management positions within communications, brand and marketing. She holds an EMBA from Stockholm School of Economics and a BA in Business Administration and Literature from Stockholm University.
Anders heads one of the largest sustainability teams in the European financial sector. Anders has, as the only Nordic representative, one of eleven seats in the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) global Banking Committee, which steer the overall strategy and activities of the global Banking Programme. He is also the Founder of Bankers for Climate (www.bankersforclimate.com), an independent non-profit climate change movement for all employees in the global financial industry.
Stuart is primarily responsible for communications and engagement within Volvo Cars’ Global Sustainability Team. Stuart has been driving the sustainability agenda across the company since he joined in 2016. This includes the development of Volvo’s present strategy, focused on climate action, the circular economy, and ethical and responsible business. He is a passionate believer that a strong focus on sustainability is essential to the future success and resilience of any business. Before joining Volvo Cars, he was a British diplomat for 16 years.
Harmeet Bawa is Group Senior Vice President, Global Head of Government and Institutional Relations at Hitachi Energy (formerly Hitachi ABB Power Grids). Harmeet Bawa has been with the company since 1986, at the time as ASEA before it became ABB. He has held a range of management positions in various capacities and regions, most recently at Group Headquarters in Zürich since over 10 years.
Fredrika Klarén is a firm believer in the role of business as a catalyst for sustainable development and has held sustainability positions over the past decade at IKEA and Swedish fashion retailer KappAhl. She studied Civil Engineering with a focus on Environmental Systems Analysis at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Fredrika joined Polestar in April 2020 to drive the company’s sustainability ambitions forward on issues such as climate-neutrality, circularity, transparency and inclusion. Fredrika is chair of the board for Agenda 2030 West, an organisation enabling partnership between academia, business, civil society and public sector for the 17 SDGs. Fredrika is a reglular speaker at events such as The Next Web, Financial Times Live and Electronomous.
As CEO of Renewcell, Patrik Lundström leads a path-breaking textile-to-textile recycling business aiming to make fashion circular globally. He has led the scale-up of Renewcell’s operations from demo to industrial scale with the opening of the world’s first commercial scale textile-to-textile chemical recycling plant, Renewcell 1 in Sundsvall, in 2022. Prior to joining Renewcell, Patrik worked for international corporations such as Royal DSM and General Electric.
Christian Levin joined Scania in 1994, he holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Business and Administration. Since 1994 he has held several management positions in the company such as MD in Scania Italy and Scania Switzerland, Head of Commercial Operations and Head of Sales & Marketing. In January 2019, he took up the position as Chief Operating Officer at TRATON GROUP and was also appointed as member of the Executive Board of TRATON SE. As from May 2021 Christian Levin is President and CEO of Scania and as of October 2021 he is CEO of TRATON SE.
Madeleine holds dual roles within the management team of Alfa Laval's Energy Division.She serves as the President of the Business Unit for Electrolyzer & Fuel Cell Technologies, in addition to her role as the Head of Clean Technologies. In her capacity as the Head of Clean Technologies, Madeleine oversees a wide range of responsibilities, including public affairs, investment and acquisitions, as well as the business development of various applications, such as Energy Storage, Hydrogen and Carbon Capture and Storage. Madeleine's tenure with Alfa Laval began in 2014, during which she has held various positions related to strategy and business development. She is a holder of M.Sc. degrees in both Industrial Engineering and Management, as well as Biotechnology, earned from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.
Born in Mexico City, Catarina Paulson has worked within sustainability since 1994 in companies such as Volvo Cars, Volvo Group, AkzoNobel, and TetraPak before joining Alfa Laval in 2014. A graduate of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania she holds a B.A. in Political science/international relations, a diploma in Marketing with a focus on environmental communication and has studied human technology and personnel administration. At Alfa Laval she has been instrumental in the development of the sustainability strategy for 2030 and in ensuring a road map for zero scopes 1&2 and halving scope 3 emissions by 2030 is established.
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