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Professor Jorgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School ; Co-author of Limits to Growth)
Wednesday 14 March 2012, 18:00-19:30
The next 40 years
- đ¤ Speaker: Professor Jorgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School ; Co-author of Limits to Growth)
- đ Date & Time: Wednesday 14 March 2012, 18:00 - 19:30
- đ Venue: Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0
Abstract
Randers is currently (2008) Professor of Climate Strategy at the BI Norwegian Business School, where his work is concentrated on climate issues, scenario planning and system dynamics.
Randers serves on the board of several companies, such as Tomra in Norway, and on the sustainability boards of British Telecom in England and The Dow Chemical Company in USA . In 2005-06 he headed the Norwegian Commission on Low Emissions, which presented a report demonstrating how Norway could reduce her greenhouse gas emissions by â by 2050.
He served as deputy director general of the World Wildlife Fund International in Switzerland from 1994 to 1999 and as president of the BI Norwegian Business School from 1981 to 1989. He has authored and co-authored several books and articles, notably the controversial The Limits to Growth (1972) with updates in 1992 and 2004.
Series This talk is part of the 10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012 series.
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