北欧绿色邮报网报道（记者陈雪霏）－－一年一度为期五天的北欧家居灯具展13日在斯德哥尔摩落下帷幕。请欣赏北欧设计的魅力。
精美的造型
最欣赏这款。希望能挂在自己家里。
芬兰公司也来这里参展。他表示，来这里参展见到了20多个国家的同行。
大理石音响真是让人耳目一新啊！
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Hamsten resigns as chancellor of Karolinska Institute
By Xuefei Chen Axelsson
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 13(Greenpost)–Anders Hamsten, Vice Chancellor of Karolinska Institute announced on Friday that he would resign due to the Italian visiting professor Macchiarini’s case.
“I failed to see the warning signs. Confidence in me as Vice-Chancellor of KI has been impaired both among the public, the research community and KI’s staff and students. It will be difficult for me to continue to act as Vice-Chancellor of Sweden’s most successful university with credibility and effectiveness. For that reason I am resigning my post, “Anders Hamsten writes.
Hamsten’s resignation came after SVT series investigation report on Macchiarini’s experiment of plastic windpipe applied in human being causing deaths of the patients.
This was seen as a strong” earthquake “for Karolinska Institute because late last week Urban Lendahl resigned.
Swedish mainstream newspaper Daily News or DN published a series of debate articles criticising him of knowing the facts, but not doing the intervention earlier. The other article criticised Karolinska Institute of mixing Nobel Prize in Medicine and academic research, saying the control of professorship was not academic. In other words relationship with the leadership played an important role.
The articles also pointed out that the responsibilities of Karolinska Institute and the Karolinska Institute hospital are somewhat confusing.
After these two articles published, Hamsten decided to resign “because KI has received new information which gives a modified picture of the charges of irregularity against Paolo Macchiarini. ”
He has already decided that an external investigation will be conducted and former president of Swedish Administration Court of Appeal was appointed to do the job.
On Feb. 7 genetics professor Urban Lendahl, who sat on two prestigious Nobel groups, announced his resignation from those positions after it became clear he may be involved in an external investigation regarding the once-prominent surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, according to Swedish Radio.
On Saturday, Lendahl decided to step down as secretary general of the Nobel Assembly and the Nobel Committee in Physiology or Medicine at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute.
The Karolinska Institute University Board said it launched an external investigation into the hiring and work of Macchiarini who is a visiting professor at the facility.
Macchiarini had performed experimental transplants involving plastic windpipes coated with the patient’s stem cells and has been accused by several colleagues of overstating his outcomes and the effectiveness of the procedures.
Last Friday, Macchiarini was notified by the Institute’s vice chancellor that his contract would not be extended.
Lendahl has not be accused of any wrongdoing but thought it best to step aside while the investigation was ongoing.
“As professor Lendahl anticipates that he may be involved in this investigation, he resigns from his position as Secretary General out of respect for the integrity of the Nobel Prize work,” read a news release from the professor Rune Toftgård, chairman of the Nobel Assembly.
The assembly is an independent body of 50 professors from the Karolinska Institute which awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Hamsten published his resignation in the DN debate.
The following is the whole text.
The ”Macchiarini affair” or the ”KI scandal” has substantially shaken confidence in medical research in general and in Karolinska Institutet in particular during the last few weeks. I have had reason to scrutinise both my actions and the decisions I have made concerning the investigation into research irregularities that was the starting point for the media storm which has been raging for the last couple of weeks.
Because of the attention in the media, KI has received new information which definitely gives a modified picture of the charges of irregularity against Paolo Macchiarini. My conclusion is that KI’s investigation into Paolo Macchiarini’s scientific misconduct has to be reopened. Against this backdrop it seems very likely that my decision in this case was wrong.
During the last few days it has become obvious that the information possessed by KI when the matter was investigated was not complete. Last Wednesday we were given a new impression of the period following the operation in Iceland on his first patient, whose case is the basis of some of Macchiarini’s articles. During the last few days KI has also received information that implies serious inaccuracies in an article describing trials with artificial tracheae in rats. This information was totally new for KI. We are now endeavouring to investigate this information thoroughly and arrange an independent examination. But there is much to indicate that the judgement reached by KI last summer should be amended to scientific misconduct, which in plain language means research fraud.
In hindsight I can conclude that I should have looked for these probable inaccuracies during the review that led to the decision KI made on the matter of misconduct in August 2015. We should quite simply have been more thorough. As Vice-Chancellor of KI I am ultimately responsible for this.
Bosse Lindquist has made an important documentary series which pinpoints a number of important questions and reveals misjudgements at Karolinska Institutet. Today I can see that I completely misjudged Paolo Macchiarini and that he and KI should have gone their separate ways far earlier. It was in all probability wrong to employ him in 2010, just over two years before I was appointed Vice-Chancellor.
KI failed to see the warning signs early enough and did not pay enough attention to the warnings that came from doctors working close to Paolo Macchiarini. Nor was KI critical enough of the method of using artificial tracheae that Macchiarini adopted. Many have said that I, as Vice Chancellor, together with the management of Karolinska University Hospital should have acted to draw these warnings to the attention of the research project Paolo Macchiarini was conducting in Russia. With the benefit of hindsight I can of course see that we should have done so. At the same time, one has to remember that the clinical study Macchiarini conducted in Krasnodar was undertaken with permission from the Russian authorities and that, according to information available to KI, there was ethical approval for each single patient. What form these approvals took and what the medical status of the patients was before the operations is known only by those who took part in the study. Patient confidentiality, obviously, also exists in Russia.
In the recent discussion Karolinska Institutet has also been criticised for a culture of self-sufficiency, unhealthy elitism and prestige thinking. This may be true, I don’t know. What is, however, true is that we have high ambitions in our endeavour to use research and education to improve people’s health and at the same time contribute to medical breakthroughs and innovation in the field of life sciences which will benefit the whole of society in Sweden.
Tens of thousands of extraordinarily capable and dedicated employees who have had nothing at all to do with this unfortunate story work at KI and Karolinska University Hospital. All these loyal and dedicated employees deserve our gratitude, support and encouragement.
It is obvious that the picture many people have of KI as a self-sufficient elite university is alarming. Now we must ransack ourselves and get to the bottom of the question of whether an unhealthy academic culture prevails here. KI is reviewing the routines concerning recruitment and employment as well as our control mechanisms. We must introduce and take care of international researchers in a better way. And we must be more explicit with our employees about the ethical framework that is in place for their actions in Sweden as well as abroad. KI will actively encourage dialogue and discussions about values so that they are always inherent in our work.
The fact that Karolinska Institutet’s reputation has been tarnished by the ”Macchiarini affair” is extremely serious and is something for which I am obviously responsible. KI’s board has initiated an investigation into KI’s handling of Paolo Macchiarini from recruitment onwards and, not least, my actions in the misconduct investigation. A similar external investigation of Karolinska University Hospital’s role is being undertaken. This is excellent, as the two autonomous investigations will provide answers about direct errors that have been committed and what can be learned from them.
I am aware that confidence in me as Vice-Chancellor of KI has been impaired, both in the public, the research community and many of KI’s employees and students. The chorus of voices raised to demand my resignation is so multifarious and strident that I realise it will be difficult for me to continue working as Vice Chancellor of Sweden’s most successful university with credibility and effectiveness. That is why I am resigning my position.
http://www.dn.se/debatt/i-am-resigning-my-position-as-vice-chancellor-of-karolinska-institutet/
http://ki.se/en/news/anders-hamsten-steps-down-as-vice-chancellor-of-karolinska-institutet
瑞典乌普萨拉大学是400年前在欧洲排名第11
北欧绿色邮报网报道（记者陈雪霏）－－英国时代周刊教育版评比400年前欧洲的前25名大学，牛津大学排名第一，瑞典乌普萨拉大学排名第11，建于1477年.
据瑞典日报报道，今年是英国著名作家莎士比亚逝世400周年。虽然莎士比亚写了那么多惊世之作，但他实际上没怎么上过学，或者根本没上过大学，全是自学成才，而且写的故事很多是关于他自己的生活。
那么，时代周刊的排名第二是剑桥大学，第三是爱丁堡大学，第四名是德国LMU大学，第五名是比利时大学，第六名是德国海德堡大学。
第11名是乌普萨拉大学。第12名是哥本哈根大学。
瑞典大柳里奥地区领导来斯德哥尔摩招人
北欧绿色邮报网报道（记者陈雪霏）－－瑞典最北部城市柳里奥地区五个城市的政府官员和开发区官员9日在斯德哥尔摩举行信息交流会，介绍柳里奥的发展情况。
柳里奥商业区CEO马兹.恩格特介绍说，柳里奥是个相当有吸引力的地方。那里传统工业是钢铁和各种矿产，近年来，因为有柳里奥科技大学，科研有很大发展，IT产业发展尤其迅猛。脸书已经将它的计算机中心设在那里。因为温度低，所以，天然空调，节能减排。
恩格特说，因为矿产开发的扩展，很多建筑需要拆迁，在拆迁的过程中，有很多工作岗位，有很多资金投入，因此，我们希望人们回去，因为到那里有工作等着你。
“我们有13.7万人。我们有大量的资金投入，有大学，在数据中心发展非常迅速。今后十年，将有2000亿克朗投入，有两个矿城需要拆迁，因此，我们的地区是非常有吸引力的。我们是北方城市之都。在斯德哥尔摩有很多来自柳里奥的人在这工作，我们要向他们介绍我们的最新发展，然后，吸引他们回去。尽管我们那很冷，但是，冬天白雪皑皑，点亮我们的夜空。”
恩格特说，“我们那里气候冷，但是我们的人好，我们有很广阔的空间，很容易进入社会。我们欢迎新人来这里工作和生活。”
恩格特说，柳里奥与中国也有渊源，不但大学里的钢铁冶炼技术研究和中国有联系，而且，挪威的三文鱼要出口到中国一般也都经过柳里奥港口或飞机场。
尼古拉.维克斯特罗姆就是一个柳里奥人，但曾在斯德哥尔摩工作。几年前，他得到柳里奥政府的支持，建立了自己的公司叫oh, my. 是个提供内容的网络公司。
图文／陈雪霏
瑞典电视台新闻调查引发卡罗林斯卡医学院领导层地震
北欧绿色邮报网报道（记者陈雪霏）－－卡罗林斯卡医学院10日发布消息，大学董事会已经任命律师就“马基亚利尼案”进行外部调查。
任命“马基亚利尼案”外部调查员
卡罗林斯卡任命的外部调查员是前最高行政上诉法院院长，法官斯特恩.海克舍尔（Sten Hecksher）。73岁的海克舍尔曾经是斯德哥尔摩上诉行政法院院长，国家警察总署署长，瑞典产权和注册司司长，司法部副国务秘书和工业与就业部部长。他也曾经在斯德哥尔摩大学董事会担任9年主席的职务。
他也任命了两名助手协助调查。这两名助手分别是作家英格丽.卡尔贝和赫尔辛基大学生物化学教授卡尔.加姆贝。54岁的卡尔贝曾经在《每日新闻》当过20年的记者。她出版过好几本书，包括Pillret,一本关于药品工业的书。2008年出版。一本是《这有个房间等着你》是拉吾尔.瓦伦贝的自传， 2012年出版。她曾获得文学界最高奖奥古斯特奖和瑞典最受尊重的记者金锹奖。她是乌普萨拉大学医学荣誉博士，而且是广播委员会委员。
加姆贝73岁，是芬兰被引用最多的研究者之一，是受过训练的医生。他在美国工作过，依然是赫尔辛基加姆贝实验室搞研究的名誉教授。他曾有过几个国际任命，被授予过很多科学成就奖。他是瑞典皇家科学院海外院士。
诺奖大会秘书长伦达尔宣布辞职
马基亚利尼案始于瑞典电视台的三集新闻调查，讲述的是意大利访问教授保罗.马基亚利尼从2010年开始在卡罗林斯卡医学院进行科研，他研究的项目是合成喉管。由塑料材料制成的人工合成喉管代替真正的喉管，就像心脏移植一样，他实验植入人工合成喉管，使原来不能说话或者说话费劲的人能够说话。但手术以后，病人最长的活了两年半，有的很短时间就死了。根据电视调查报道，几乎所有做这个手术的患者都去世了。马基亚利尼不承认病人是因为这个手术而死亡的。
调查也显示他因为情况紧急，没有经过充分的动物实验，就直接进行了人的实验。过后，又进行了动物实验。
该调查一播出，卡罗林斯卡医学院立即宣布进行外部调查。他们对电视报道的评论是，有些细节并不知道。
此事引发地震。卡罗林斯卡诺奖大会的秘书长，伦达尔曾经同意马基亚利尼作为访问研究员来这里做研究。结果，8日他宣布辞职。
目前，卡罗林斯卡医学院院长哈姆斯坦得到董事会的信任，他表示继续履职并对此事进行外部调查。卡罗林斯卡关注的是是否他简历有造假，是否有诱骗或强迫患者做手术的情况等。
Karolinska Institute appoints investigators for “Macchiarini case”
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 10(Greenpost)–The Karolinska Institutet University Board (Konsistoriet) has appointed the lawyer who will be conducting the external investigation into KI’s handling of the “Macchiarini case”, according to a press release from KI.
The lawyer has appointed two others to assist him in his work.
The external investigator is the former president and justice of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden Sten Heckscher.
Heckscher is 73 years old, and has been president of the Administrative Court of Appeal in Stockholm, national police commissioner, general director of the Swedish Patent and Registration Office, under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Justice and minister of Industry and Employment. He also chaired the board of Stockholm University for nine years.
Sten Heckscher has appointed two people to assist him in the investigation. They are: Author Ingrid Carlberg and Professor Carl Gahmberg.
Carlberg is 54 years old and a former journalist of 20 years standing at Dagens Nyheter. She has published several books, including “Pillret” (an account of the pharmaceutical industry, 2008) and “Det står ett rum här och väntar på dig…” (a biography of Raoul Wallenberg, 2012). She has won the August Prize and the Guldspaden award, Sweden’s most respected journalism prize. She is an honorary doctor of medicine at Uppsala University, and has sat on the Broadcasting Commission.
Gahmberg is 73 years old and professor of biochemistry at Helsinki University. He is a trained doctor and one of Finland’s most cited researchers. He has worked in the USA and continues as emeritus professor to research at the Gahmberg Lab in Helsinki. He has held several international appointments and received many awards for scientific excellence. He is an overseas member of the Swedish Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The investigative team will be furnished with whatever administrative resources are required, KI said.
According to Swedish TV series report, Paolo Macchiarini experimented on human being with his artificial plastic halspipe. He did experiments but all of the patients died.
Macchiarini denied allegations claiming the patients died of other reasons. But the report shows that he did human experiment first and then did it in animals. This concerns ethics in research and also with whether he got permission to do what he did or not.
Karolinska institute’s Nobel Committee Secretary Lendal resigned two days ago after the case was set up.
KI also made a decision that Macchiarini’s contract will not be extended after it expires in November, 2016.
The SVT series documentary was broadcast on Jan. 28th and it is still online.
The investigative report caused an earthquake in KI, where the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be announced every year.
Midwifery should be recognized as a profession in South Asia
Stockholm, Feb. 9(Greenpost)–In several South Asian countries, midwifery is not an established profession.
As a result, complications in both mothers and newborns are extremely common. Sweden researchers is presenting a new strategy on how the midwifery profession can be established in low-income countries is presented, which could also improve the health of mothers and newborns.
The goal of increased maternal survival is one of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals with the lowest degree of fulfillment.
An important strategy for improving maternal and child health is well-educated midwives. However, in many of the low-income countries, the profession does not even exist or competence is insufficient – something that contributes to complications and injuries to both the delivering mother and the newborn child.
Since 2007, doctoral candidate Malin Bogren has received different assignments in South Asia from the UN. In her thesis that is being presented at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, she has mapped the midwifery situation in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Butan, India, Nepal and Pakistan – all countries with a high maternal mortality ratio.
In none of these countries does midwifery fulfill the criteria for being an independent profession. In Nepal, educated midwives as per international standards are entirely lacking.
“There, nurses conduct midwifery work without any formal competence,” says Malin Bogren.
Through questionnaires and individual interviews with key persons, observations at delivery wards and analyses of policy documents, Malin Bogren has formulated a strategy for supporting the establishment of a competent midwife profession in Nepal – a strategy that can also help with establishment in other developing countries.
“Midwifery in South Asia lacks national legislation that recognizes midwifery as an independent profession. The most important recommendations for improving the midwife profession in the studied countries are, therefore, legislative development and a comprehensive approach to strengthening the formal educational preparation for both midwifery students and midwifery teachers, which then raises the profession’s status,” Malin Bogren.
It is a long road, but according to Malin Bogren, not an impossible one. Different political interests and priorities, competing interest from the nursing profession and different opinions as to what academic level midwifery should be put at, are some of the barriers. But, to succeed requires a close and open collaboration and communication between the decision makers, civil society, academia and the donors.
“My thesis provides recommendations for different levels of decision makers, civil society, academia and donors. Hopefully, this information can help to establish midwifery as a profession in South Asia and thus improve and promote maternal and newborn health.” Bogren said.
Infants sleeps in their own beds to reduce the risk of sudden death
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 8(Greenpost)–A new doctoral thesis shows that potential to save more lives exists if infants sleeps alone in their backs and the pregnant mother does not smoke.
In the early 1990s, the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare went out with advice to new parents to reduce the number of children who die each year from SIDS. The advice stated that children sleep safest on their backs, that smoking during pregnancy is a risk factor, that children should not be kept too warm, that they should be able to move freely and that breastfeeding provided a certain amount of protection.
The preventative advice led to a sharp drop in the number of deaths from SIDS; from over a hundred children annually, to about twenty deaths per year in more recent years.
Risk and preventative factors have changed when the cases are fewer and have not been studied recently. In a new thesis at Sahlgrenska Academy, the University of Gothenburg, Per Möllborg, Child Health Medical Officer, has studied the different factors surrounding SIDS to enable further preventative work.
“The results show that more lives could potentially be saved if fewer babies slept on their stomachs or were placed on their sides, if fewer mothers smoked during pregnancy and if infants slept in their own beds in their parents’ bedroom during the first three months,” says Per Möllborg.
Children sleeping with their parents can be a risky situation during the first months. One of the thesis’ four studies examined co-sleeping. One out of five children slept with their parents at 6 months of age and it was even more common if the child was breastfed, had difficulty sleeping and woke often as well as if the mother was a single parent. If the child used a pacifier, co-sleeping was less common.
The thesis shows that current advice is relatively well followed, and that only one in 20 infants are laid down to sleep on their stomachs. Babies were more commonly sleeping on their stomachs if the mother was unemployed, smoked during pregnancy, if the child was irritable, shared a room with siblings or did not use a pacifier.
“This knowledge gives the Child Health Centers the opportunity to more precisely focus information and further reduce the number of babies placed on their stomachs,” says Per Möllborg.
One of the studies in the thesis showed that the risk of SIDS was greater if the parents did not live together, if the mother was young, had given birth to many children or if the baby was premature.
As sudden infant death syndrome has become less common, smoking has become a greater risk factor. Now, it is no longer more common for deaths during the winter months and the average age of sudden infant death has lowered from just under 3 months to 2 months, since introduction of the new advice in the early 1990s.
The research was done at Sahlgrenska Academy of Gothenburg University.
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APANS ÅR! ÖSTASIATISKA NYÅRET
Fira ankomsten av Apans år med Östasiatiska museet! Drake, lejondans, nyårskalligrafi, familjevisningar och mycket mer i det nyårsdekorerade museet.
PROGRAM:
Kl 12-16 I Ateljé Draken kan du tillverka dina egna nyårdekorationer i rött och guld. Teprovning med Grace Tea House, Kalligrafi med mästaren Yen-Chin Chen, Svensk-Kinesiska föreningen har bokbord, prova på pappersklipp och ta reda på ditt årsdjur. Tipspromenad med kluriga frågor för stora och små.
Kl 12: Nyårsvisning i kinavåningen. Varför firar vi Apans år? Vilka är årsdjuren?
Kl 12.30: Nyårsparad. Följ Draken från Sergels torg!
Kl 13: Utomhusföreställning med lejondans, drake och kinesiska danser.
Kl 14: Konsert med en gästande kinesisk ensemble, därefter dansuppvisning med elever från Stockholms kinesiska skola. Hörsalen.
Kl 14.30: Taikotrummor. Musikgruppen Hino Tora Taiko hyllar Apan! Hörsalen.
Kl 15: Höjdpunkter ur pekingoperan Dang Ma med Azottiteatern. Trapphallen
Kl 15.30: Nyårsvisning i kinavåningen. Varför firar vi Apans år? Vilka är årsdjuren?
Enligt gammal folktro har apan gudomliga krafter, och är på samma gång både okynnig och intelligent. På mandarin uttalas “apa” på samma sätt som “högt uppsatt ämbetsman”, så särskilda utmärkelser har ofta delats ut under detta år. Apan har därför kommit att betyda ära och välgång.
Kända personer födda i apans år är bl a Lucy Liu, Carrie Fisher, Daniel Craig och Gustaf Skarsgård.
Speech by Prime Minister Stefan Löfven at the launch of Sweden’s action towards the Global Goals
Stockholm, 18 January (Greenpost)–Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven spoke at the Sweden’s action towards the Global Goals. The following is the text in English.
Your Royal Highness,
Dr Nabarro,
Friends,
A very warm welcome to this launch of Sweden’s action to implement the 2030 Agenda. It is particularly exciting to see so many here from so many sectors of society.
Because if there’s one thing I know, it is that we get results when we work together – the business sector, trade unions, civil society,
researchers, politicians and civil servants at all levels.
One of the success factors for the Global Goals and the 2030 Agenda
is that so many have been involved in developing them.
This gives us strength as we move forward and begin to implement the goals.
Thank you for being here ready to take on this task. I very much look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas about the work that lies ahead of us.
Friends,
“A quiet life on the peak of a volcano is illusory. In today’s world everything concerns everyone.”
These were the words of Václav Havel, formulated when the Berlin Wall fell and the world was in upheaval. Gone was the stalemate of the Cold War and a new era of global cooperation began. It was a time when world leaders and countries came face to face with the completely new challenges and new opportunities that globalisation presented.
The decade that followed was a time when the major future global issues were discussed at a string of world conferences, not least the Earth Summit in Rio, the Conference on Women in Beijing, the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen and the Conference on Population and Development in Cairo.
And it was those efforts that resulted in the Millennium Development Goals.
And I know that at the turn of the millennium, there weren’t many who believed that those goals could be achieved.
We were used to the United Nations setting important goals and visions but we were also used to careless implementation of the decisions that were taken.
But the prophets of doom were wrong. We have proved that it is possible to change and improve the world. When there is willingness,
when global leadership is strong and when the opportunities globalisation offers are seized.
At the end of last year, the American magazine The Atlantic wrote that 2015 was “the best year in history for the average human being”.
And much of what was reported there relates to the UN Millennium Development Goals. Poverty was halved – five years ahead of the deadline. Today, nine out of ten girls and boys around the world go to school. Maternal mortality has fallen. Child mortality has fallen.
Billions of people have gained access to clean water. A global middle class is emerging where every second person has access to a mobile phone.
Friends, the world is not worse. It’s better.
But we live in paradoxical times.
Alongside positive developments we see deepening wars and conflicts,
terrorist attacks, an ongoing refugee crisis and serious environmental and climate threats.This adds to our unease.
And despite the huge progress that has been made 800 million people
are still living in extreme poverty. Ninety million children around the world are still suffering from malnutrition. Women across the globe still have less power, and poorer access to the labour market and education.
A lot of work remains to be done.
It was with this perspective – of challenges and opportunities – that the world’s leaders gathered in New York in September last year and adopted the 2030 Agenda and its 17 global goals.
And it was recognising our common destiny that we gathered in December and agreed on a new binding climate agreement.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed it well. “We are the first generation that can eradicate poverty. And the last that can put an end to climate change.”
And the work is not to be done by someone else, somewhere else. It has to be done by all of us together. The goals make great demands on all countries and all actors.It is my ambition to see Sweden take the lead.
And there are two reasons for this.
1. It is morally right.
We have a responsibility towards others, and not just ourselves here and now. We have a responsibility towards people all over the world, but also towards future generations.
2. But it is also economically smart.
I want Swedish companies to be the ones to develop the new technology and solutions that the world is crying out for to reduce carbon emissions. Our country will benefit from being at the forefront of climate adaptation.
Sweden’s strength lies in being an egalitarian and gender equal society,
which not despite, but because of its solidarity and tolerance, is rich, modern and a world development leader. This is the Sweden we are striving to build. This is the Sweden we believe in.
And I know that there are plenty of ideas and solutions in Sweden.
Just over a year ago, I met Mehrdad Mahdjoubi when he was named Technologist of the Year. I’m sure you have heard of him. He has developed the world’s most advanced and efficient shower system, saving 90 per cent water and 80 per cent energy, and the shower water is cleaner than ordinary hot tap water. In addition, he has succeeded in turning his innovation into a business idea and set up a company called Orbital Systems. It is now ready for a global launch.
Many Swedish companies are well ahead. Scania and Volvo, working tenaciously for a low-emission green transport sector. H&M, one of the world’s largest users of organic cotton and working for workers’ rights.
There are more examples: Ericsson’s digital solutions, ABB’s development of smart grids and IKEA’s goal to produce its own renewable energy and make it easy for us ordinary people to live greener lives with LED lights and solar panels.
I could go on because this is what I think is really exciting – when jobs are created through innovations that are turned into business ideas and reach new markets.
Sustainable business models give Swedish companies a competitive edge. This is Sweden’s future. This makes a difference – in Sweden and in the world. And this creates jobs and growth.
Let me give you another example of leadership. Malmö – a municipality that has made the global goals its own. You are showing the way both on innovative environmental efforts and proposals to reduce health inequalities. And there are many more municipalities making important investments in sustainable development – Karlstad, Örebro, Lomma, Östersund and Borås to name but a few.
We have to take advantage of all the available knowledge and experience.
Three government ministers have particular responsibility for implementation. Minister for Public Administration Ardalan Shekarabi,
Minister for International Development Cooperation Isabella Lövin and Minister for Strategic Development Kristina Persson.
The Government will soon appoint a national delegation to facilitate and stimulate implementation. It will be tasked with producing a national action plan.
We will be assisted by a large number of government agencies that will contribute their knowledge, such as SCB, which will help to develop
indicators for the follow-up. This will make our work and the results concrete.
But what is most important is all of you here today, the breadth that you represent and the engagement you bring. Your knowledge is essential. Your work is crucial. We will do this together.
And what a historic opportunity to be a part of this process and make a difference.
We have a long to-do list. Let’s get started.
Once again, a warm welcome to you all.
Swedish PM attends the Agenda 2030 conference
By Xuefei Chen Axelsson
Stockholm, Jan. 23(Greenpost)–Agenda 2030–Swedish Work to reach the Global Targets conference was held in Stockholm on Jan. 18.
Speech by Prime Minister Stefan Löfven at the launch of Sweden’s action towards the Global Goals
Stockholm 18 January 2016
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Your Royal Highness,
Dr Nabarro,
Friends,
A very warm welcome to this launch of Sweden’s action to implement the 2030 Agenda. It is particularly exciting to see so many here from so many sectors of society.
Because if there’s one thing I know, it is that we get results when we work together – the business sector, trade unions, civil society,
researchers, politicians and civil servants at all levels.
One of the success factors for the Global Goals and the 2030 Agenda
is that so many have been involved in developing them.
This gives us strength as we move forward and begin to implement the goals.
Thank you for being here ready to take on this task. I very much look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas about the work that lies ahead of us.
Friends,
“A quiet life on the peak of a volcano is illusory. In today’s world everything concerns everyone.”
These were the words of Václav Havel, formulated when the Berlin Wall fell and the world was in upheaval. Gone was the stalemate of the Cold War and a new era of global cooperation began. It was a time when world leaders and countries came face to face with the completely new challenges and new opportunities that globalisation presented.
The decade that followed was a time when the major future global issues were discussed at a string of world conferences, not least the Earth Summit in Rio, the Conference on Women in Beijing, the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen and the Conference on Population and Development in Cairo.
And it was those efforts that resulted in the Millennium Development Goals.
And I know that at the turn of the millennium, there weren’t many who believed that those goals could be achieved.
We were used to the United Nations setting important goals and visions but we were also used to careless implementation of the decisions that were taken.
But the prophets of doom were wrong. We have proved that it is possible to change and improve the world. When there is willingness,
when global leadership is strong and when the opportunities globalisation offers are seized.
At the end of last year, the American magazine The Atlantic wrote that 2015 was “the best year in history for the average human being”.
And much of what was reported there relates to the UN Millennium Development Goals. Poverty was halved – five years ahead of the deadline. Today, nine out of ten girls and boys around the world go to school. Maternal mortality has fallen. Child mortality has fallen.
Billions of people have gained access to clean water. A global middle class is emerging where every second person has access to a mobile phone.
Friends, the world is not worse. It’s better.
But we live in paradoxical times.
Alongside positive developments we see deepening wars and conflicts,
terrorist attacks, an ongoing refugee crisis and serious environmental and climate threats.This adds to our unease.
And despite the huge progress that has been made 800 million people
are still living in extreme poverty. Ninety million children around the world are still suffering from malnutrition. Women across the globe still have less power, and poorer access to the labour market and education.
A lot of work remains to be done.
It was with this perspective – of challenges and opportunities – that the world’s leaders gathered in New York in September last year and adopted the 2030 Agenda and its 17 global goals.
And it was recognising our common destiny that we gathered in December and agreed on a new binding climate agreement.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed it well. “We are the first generation that can eradicate poverty. And the last that can put an end to climate change.”
And the work is not to be done by someone else, somewhere else. It has to be done by all of us together. The goals make great demands on all countries and all actors.It is my ambition to see Sweden take the lead.
And there are two reasons for this.
1. It is morally right.
We have a responsibility towards others, and not just ourselves here and now. We have a responsibility towards people all over the world, but also towards future generations.
2. But it is also economically smart.
I want Swedish companies to be the ones to develop the new technology and solutions that the world is crying out for to reduce carbon emissions. Our country will benefit from being at the forefront of climate adaptation.
Sweden’s strength lies in being an egalitarian and gender equal society,
which not despite, but because of its solidarity and tolerance, is rich, modern and a world development leader. This is the Sweden we are striving to build. This is the Sweden we believe in.
And I know that there are plenty of ideas and solutions in Sweden.
Just over a year ago, I met Mehrdad Mahdjoubi when he was named Technologist of the Year. I’m sure you have heard of him. He has developed the world’s most advanced and efficient shower system, saving 90 per cent water and 80 per cent energy, and the shower water is cleaner than ordinary hot tap water. In addition, he has succeeded in turning his innovation into a business idea and set up a company called Orbital Systems. It is now ready for a global launch.
Many Swedish companies are well ahead. Scania and Volvo, working tenaciously for a low-emission green transport sector. H&M, one of the world’s largest users of organic cotton and working for workers’ rights.
There are more examples: Ericsson’s digital solutions, ABB’s development of smart grids and IKEA’s goal to produce its own renewable energy and make it easy for us ordinary people to live greener lives with LED lights and solar panels.
I could go on because this is what I think is really exciting – when jobs are created through innovations that are turned into business ideas and reach new markets.
Sustainable business models give Swedish companies a competitive edge. This is Sweden’s future. This makes a difference – in Sweden and in the world. And this creates jobs and growth.
Let me give you another example of leadership. Malmö – a municipality that has made the global goals its own. You are showing the way both on innovative environmental efforts and proposals to reduce health inequalities. And there are many more municipalities making important investments in sustainable development – Karlstad, Örebro, Lomma, Östersund and Borås to name but a few.
We have to take advantage of all the available knowledge and experience.
Three government ministers have particular responsibility for implementation. Minister for Public Administration Ardalan Shekarabi,
Minister for International Development Cooperation Isabella Lövin and Minister for Strategic Development Kristina Persson.
The Government will soon appoint a national delegation to facilitate and stimulate implementation. It will be tasked with producing a national action plan.
We will be assisted by a large number of government agencies that will contribute their knowledge, such as SCB, which will help to develop
indicators for the follow-up. This will make our work and the results concrete.
But what is most important is all of you here today, the breadth that you represent and the engagement you bring. Your knowledge is essential. Your work is crucial. We will do this together.
And what a historic opportunity to be a part of this process and make a difference.
We have a long to-do list. Let’s get started.
Once again, a warm welcome to you all.
UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson sent a televised congratulaitons to the conference.
Crown Princess Victoria an Advocate for UN Global Goals
Stockholm, Jan. 29(Greenpost)–United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Crown Princess Victoria as one of sixteen Advocates to promote the Sustainable Development Goals, also known as the Global Goals.
The Advocates’ role will be to “leverage their unique standing and leadership” to promote the messages and encourage partnerships with governments, the private sector and civil society.
The 17 Global Goals were adopted by world leaders at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York in September last year. The goals represent a commitment by all nations to work together to end poverty, build peace and secure a life of dignity and a healthy planet for present and future generations.
“It is both an honour and a pleasure for Sweden that Crown Princess Victoria has been chosen for this important role and that she has accepted. This shows that both the Swedish Government and the Swedish Royal Family are deeply engaged in the 2030 Agenda, the action to achieve the Global Goals,” says Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.
“I am very honoured to have been appointed as one of sixteen Advocates to promote the 2030 Agenda. The issues that the UN development goals highlight are crucial for the world. I hope to be able to contribute to this important work,” says Crown Princess Victoria in a Royal Court press release.
“Crown Princess Victoria and the other Advocates have a very important role to play, serving both to inspire and press for action. These Global Goals are needed for the countries of the world to work together to stop and prevent conflicts and refugee crises. Sustainable development cannot be achieved without peace, security and respect for human rights. The Global Goals give us fifteen years of opportunities to build a better world,” says Minister for Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed it very well: “We are the first generation that can eradicate poverty. And the last that can put an end to climate change.”
“And the work is not to be done by someone else, somewhere else. It has to be done by all of us together. The goals make great demands on all countries and all actors. It is my ambition to see Sweden take the lead and show the way,” says Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.
The Advocates include singer songwriter Shakira Mebarak, renowned football player Leo Messi, actor and filmmaker Forest Whitaker and Queen Mathilde of Belgium.
Source: Swedish government website. www.regeringen.se
Sweden will deport up to 80 thousand refugees
By Xuefei Chen Axelsson
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 28(Greenpost)– Sweden is going to deport 60 to 80 thousand refugee seekers next year. according to a report from Dagens Industri.
DI quoted Interior Minister Anders Ygeman as saying that “60 thousand refugees will be deported, it can also be up to 80 thousand.”
Ygeman said that the government has written to the police authorities and the Immigration office that they will cooperate with each other to deal with issue.
It is estimated that 55 percent of the refugees will be granted the refugee status and get relevant support while the rest of 45 percent will be deported to their own countries.
The countries to be deported to will be Afghanistan and Moracco.
It is reported that Sweden has received 163 thousand refugees last year.
But it is very difficult for the country to cope with this. Ygeman said they will likely be deported with chartered airplane. But since the work is enormous, the real deportation will be done next year.
According to Timmermans, vice chairman of the European Commission, about 60 percent of the refugee status seekers are not qualified for it. They came for economic motivation, thus has no right to get refugee status.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said on Jan. 9 that those who were rejected as refugees should leave the country.