Published 1. July 2015
Professor Jørgen Randers has been busy weaving science and activism together over the last almost 50 years. 21th of May BI Norwegian Business School hold a seminar, BI's Green Economics Seminar and Festschrift, in the honour of Jørgen Randers for exploring and enduring that tension.
BI Professor of Accounting, Auditing and Law, Nick Sitter was one of many presenters with the lecture "The Case of EU".
For more please watch: Environmental Protection.
‘I am not an activist. I am not a scientist. I am going to put Jørgen Randers into a 2x2 box,’ says Nick Sitter. His talk raises the question of whether the EU is democratic and whether a democracy can handle climate change. See more on how the tense relationship between the two affects the approach to climate change.
See also:
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BI Business Review
Environmental Protection
Why is there a gap between what we say we want to do about climate change, and what we actually do, asks Caroline Ditlev-Simonsen?
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BI Business Review
Happy Climate
54% of the global population say climate change is their biggest concern. Yet on local levels climate change is given too small a priority politically.
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BI Business Review
Mood of Optimism
Gudmund Hernes tells the history of the world in ten minutes, lay out the whole Earth system and highlight Jørgen Rander’s position in both.
