We are finally staffing up for the new Roadmapper project! A new PhD student position (Doktorand i strategisk hållbar utveckling) has been announced at the BTH website. Applicants should be strong in sustainability and systems dynamics and modeling. They should also have a good command of English and Swedish. There are more requirements but [...]
The Swedish government's restart package takes commendable steps forward but does not deliver climate benefits on a par with what would be possible. Henrik Ny, from SustainTrans, shows how this could be remedied. This opinion piece was published in the Swedish environmental magazine Aktuell Hållbarhet in October 2020. It was a follow-up of Henrik's opinion [...]
The Swedish Energy Agency recently decided to give SEK 7.6 million to a SustainTrans research project that focuses on a fast transition to sustainable transport and energy systems.There are more and more goals and roadmaps for transition to a fossil free society, but there are several questions about how it can be done sustainably, coordinated [...]
The Swedish political week in Almedalen*, Gotland, was cancelled this year but in Jönköping the online event Elmiadalen was arranged instead. Read more about the event at the Elmiadalen official website. On June 29, for the second year in a row, Henrik Ny from the SustainTrans team was a referee in the event 'Klimatmatchen' [...]
Henrik Ny from SustainTrans gives a short update on a new application where all public authorities and several companies in Blekinge join together in finding ways to speed up the transition to sustainable transport for a whole region. https://youtu.be/woMN-Reu-dQ
The Corona pandemic might disturb the transition of the transport sector that is necessary to live up to the Paris agreement and save our climate and society. A path forward is discussed based on a 'Green New Deal'. Henrik has written this opinion piece for the Swedish environmental magazine Aktuell Hållbarhet. Here is a [...]
We have got the rapid reduction in global CO2 emissions that we have been hoping for - but from a terrible reason. What happens next? When the Corona crisis subsides and we prepare ourselves to rebuild and develop our civilization - can we make the reboot green? 🌿🌎 The Pod cast the Transition Academy is [...]
We are happy to get a new cooperation started with two spatial planners from the TIFP department at BTH. Professor Abdellah Abarkan has invited Henrik to co supervise the phd student Judith Oginga Martins. This cooperation is focused on how the urban form and urban planning could be used to support a transition to sustainable [...]
An important recent milestone for the SustainTrans team was when Henrik Ny on December 11 in 2018 was invited to present a new research project idea to the civil servants group within Climate Cooperation Blekinge. This group is led by the County Administrative Board and primarily consists of environmental coordinators and experts from Region [...]
As the first phase of the Interreg TRAM project approaches its end we highlight a few events from the last few months. The first of these is the peer review workshops series that Henrik Ny participated in on November 20-22 in 2018 in Miskolc, Hungary. Three of the five project partners presented their draft action [...]