Green Economy & Sustainable Business

You may read and comment on the Green economy & Sustainable Business presentations which are linked to below;

• GreenRiders: a journey towards sustainable transportation – Oskari Räisänen, GreenRiders, Finland
• Towards carbon neutral municipalities – an innovative Finnish approach – Lea Kauppi; Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, Finland
• Practical solutions to environmental challenges: using geographic information systems (GIS) as action tool for civil society – Mr Žymantas Morkvėnas, Leader of environmental NGO Baltic environmental forum in Lithuania, founder and member of Environmental NGOs Coalition.
• Efficient offshore wind implementation – Alf Bjørseth, CEO and Chairman of Scatec AS, Norway
• The role of business beyond sustainability – Johan Ununger, Saltå Kvarn AB, Sweden
• EcoBonds – growing green energy – Dale Vince, OBE, Ecotricity Founder , UK
• Paying the public to recycle – Cllr Liam Maxwell, Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead, UK
• New ways to speed up energy savings – Niels B Christiansen, President & CEO of Danfoss A/S, Denmark
• Creating sustainable winners – Dr Jon Agust Thorsteinsson, CEO of Marorka. Iceland
• Green gourmet economy: Slow Food flies airBaltic – Mārtiņš Rītiņš, Chef of Vincents restaurant in Riga and Slow Food advocate, Latvia
• Can the lion lie down with a lamb: Entrepreneurship and challenge of the cultural heritage – Wooden Quarter in Riga – Kārlis Dambergs, MBA: Managing director and co-owner, Kalnciema Quarter, Riga, Latvia
• Synergy of IT and Life Sciences in testing for new medical treatments and control of the chemical environment – Mati Karelson, Member of Estonian Academy of Sciences, Research and Science Advisor to the Estonian Prime Minister
• Smart Grid Gotland: A full-scale Smart Grid Demonstration – Øystein Løseth, President and CEO, Vattenfall, Sweden
• Biotech Innovation Based on Arctic Marine Bioactive Compounds – Professor Trond Ø Jørgensen: Head of the Centre on Marine Bioactives and Drug Discovery (MabCent) at the University of Tromsø, Norway
• Smart grid: IT can boost Green Growth – Lars Nørby Johansen: Chairman, Danish Growth Council
• Realising Total Sustainability In Europe’s Energy Supply – Eddie O’Connor, Mainstream RP, UK