Climate, Energy and Environmental Policy in a European context with guest Pär Holmgren

09/06/2023 51 min

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Episode Synopsis

From Uppsala, Sweden we bring you critical conversations, disruptive ideas on how to change the world one small, systemic step at a time.

Sustainability, climate, power, justice, education and all sorts of initiatives gets examined and discussed in an open and intense format.

CEMUS, the Centre for Environment and Development Studies and Uppsala University and SLU, has since 1992 been working to save the world, with sustainability courses, research and outreach events, activities and projects. about CEMUS at www.cemus.uu.se

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Hosted by Daniel Mossberg, Lead Outreach Coordinator CEMUS, with this episode's guest Pär Holmgren, meteorologist, climate expert and since 2019 member of the European Parliament for the Swedish Green Party (Miljöpartiet de Gröna). In the parliament he sits on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and also as replacement on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. Pär is a trained officer in the Swedish Armed Forces and has worked as meteorologist at Swedish Public Service Television (SVT), and has a long engagement in climate issues and has among other things received the Environmental Hero of the Year (Årets miljöhjälte) from the World Wildlife Fund and a Honorary Doctorate Degree from Uppsala University.

Intro music "Discovery" by Scott Holmes music https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes (Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0).