Lars G Josefsson appointed member of Swedish Commission for Sustainable Development

Vattenfall’s CEO Lars G Josefsson will be a member of the Swedish Government’s new Commission for Sustainable Development, presented today by prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt at the Government’s Climate Seminar “Climate Change: Current knowledge and the way forward”.

Lars G Josefsson in his speech at the seminar pointed out that it is quite possible to reduce emissions considerably without jeopardizing continued growth and welfare for the many.

– In fact we have to set a global cap on emissions. This has to be done at the same time as we expect significant growth in the global economy and the global population. But, and that is important, it is fully possible to reduce emissions substantially without endangering continuous growth and welfare for the many.

– No single technology or solution can fill the gap, but the sum of all the possibilities makes the necessary change feasible. The wise handling of this challenge requires global co-operation on many fronts. It is simply not good enough to identify scapegoats and demand that someone else should solve the problem.

– Handling climate change mainly by red tape will be extremely expensive - high costs and poor results are to be expected. Leading representatives of business and industry have to show leadership by pushing for a market based viable global framework, he said.

Lars G Josefsson’s speech and presentation slides are available at www.vattenfall.com




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