Sustainable Investments to maintain and modernize crucial infrastructure in Europe!
Climate change and green bonds – Future generations have to pay anyway!
by Adrian Braun
October 2019
It is worth to discuss if future generations better pay for today´s mitigation solutions than for climate change caused damage repairs in the future when it is in fact too late. It will not become cheaper and easier to implement plans the longer we wait!
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Decoupling economic growth from exploitation of natural resources
by Adrian Braun
July 2019
The pursuit towards economic growth has prevailed long time ago. The idea is to increase productivity and business and society will benefit largely. However, a few other major discourses emerged rapidly in the past few years and decades, too. Notably, the discourse of sustainable development belongs to those. How could sustainable development work in line with continual economic growth on the markets? There are a myriad of answers and opinions towards this question.
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ESG and Circular Economy (CE): Do they know each other?
by Adrian Braun
June 2019
ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) and Circular Economy are both strongly emerging concepts in these days! These terms are used frequently in the discourses of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility, by numerous actors, including policy-makers, enterprises, NGO´s, scientists, journalists, activists and many more.
Both concepts are fundamental for various actors, but the question is where are the intertwinements and resulting possibilities of cooperation and synergies?
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Sustainability Reporting in Arctic Businesses – Does anybody care about business practices in the far North?
by Adrian Braun
February 2019
Is the Arctic a remote place? Yes and No! To answer this question, the context and the perspective matters! If we try to embrace the complete picture for a second, it is obvious that the answer “No” becomes stronger all the time. In many perspectives the Arctic gets closer to the rest of the world and globalisation is one essential reason, but not the only one in this regard.
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An Un-snowy day at the Arctic Circle! November 17th, 2018
by Adrian Braun
November 2018
A few impressions of Rovaniemi, Finnish Lapland (located on the Arctic Circle) on a November day that had been in the past frosty and snowy.
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Weak and Strong Sustainability – Interesting idea but Misleading!
by Adrian Braun
November 2018
What actions are sustainable and what actions are not? Can the generation of societal benefits outweigh the reduction of non-renewable natural resources, such as, oil, gas, metals and minerals and is this all in line with the concept of sustainability? The concept of “weak sustainability” offers apparently a solution to brand resource depletion as sustainable, but the created societal benefit (e.g. energy supply) is for the present generation and the resource is not available anymore for future generations at some distant (or not too distant) point in time! Thus depletion of non-renewable resources in line with sustainability is hardly to achieve without kicking out the future generations out of the equation. Needless to say without needs and demands of future generations, we are talking about something else than sustainability!
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The Russians are out there in the Arctic and where are the others?
Russia is active in research, fishery and exploration in the Arctic Ocean and everything at large-scale!
By Adrian Braun
August 2018
Eight Arctic countries are on this planet. These are Canada, Finland, Greenland (Denmark), Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States. Most of them have shown stronger interest in the areas North of the Polar Circle in recent years (on- and offshore). All Arctic coastal states, except Iceland have filed a claim for territories in the Arctic Ocean beyond the exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles from their own shores. A main incentive for a state to claim the “North Pole” is largely based on the natural resources that are located in the Arctic Ocean.
However there are other reasons to be active in the Arctic!
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Change Management and Climate Change – Can we manage climate change?
By Adrian Braun
August 2018
While I am here at my desk in Northern Finland, in the city of Rovaniemi, located exactly on the Polar circle, I noticed that I come across quite frequently with two terms that sound somewhat similar. Climate change and change management. By the way, “quite frequently” is a massive understatement in terms of climate change, while not only the term, but also its impacts occur in the every-day life here in the Arctic.
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