Swedish National Committee for Global Environmental Change

Vision

To strengthen the role of Swedish researchers and their partaking in international research bodies focusing on environment and sustainability; to ensure that the environmental and sustainability perspectives are integrated in policies and research proposals and also in the public discourse on social development.

Mission

To promote research and education within the field of global environmental change and sustainability. The committee will also work towards interdisciplinary cooperation and strengthen the field throughout the society - in the business sector, schools and the public. Furthermore, the committee will function as an advisor to the educational system and work as an expert body for the Royal Academy of Sciences.

Members

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Katarina Gårdfeldt

Chair

Katarina is the Director of the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, a Swedish government agency with the mission to coordinate and promoting Swedish polar research. She is a chemist, specializing in inorganic environmental chemistry. Katarina's research focuses on global transport and transformation of environmental pollutants in air and water, with a particular focus on mercury and microplastics in the Arctic and Antarctic.

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Eva Friman

Eva is a researcher at the Centre for Health and Sustainability, Uppsala University and an Adjunct Professor at the Sustainability Research Centre at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. Eva's research and teaching interests focus on equity, ecological sustainability, global exchange and transformative learning from transdisciplinary, ecological economic and political ecology perspectives.

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Jesper Stage

Jesper is Professor of Economics at Luleå University of Technology. His research focuses on environmental and natural resource economics and his research has two main tracks. He has been researching economic aspects of environmental and natural resource management in the global South, especially in Africa, since his PhD. For the last fifteen years, he has also researched socio-economic aspects of water and ocean management in Sweden.

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Jan Karlsson

Jan's research focuses on impacts of climate change on the biogeochemistry and ecology of lake and stream ecosystems.

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Gesa Weyhenmeyer

Gesa Weyhenmeyer is a professor at the Department of Ecology and Genetics/Limnology at Uppsala University who researches and teaches about global change and its impact on aquatic ecosystems. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Sciences and is active in several major national and international research projects as well as in the UN Climate Panel.

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Nina Wormbs

Professor in History of Technology, Vice Dean of Faculty, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Nina Wormbs has studied media history and digitalisation and is now focusing on the environmental humanities of climate change. She communicates research through the daily press and public service radio and collaborates with society as a member of steering committees and commissions.

Recent publications include with Wolrath Söderberg, “Thinking structures of climate delay: Internal deliberations among Swedes with sustainable ambitions”, Enviro, Dev and Sustain (2023).

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Max Troell

Max is an Associate Professor at the Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics. He mainly researches sustainable food systems, especially the role of seafood and aquaculture in our future food supply. Max is Programme Manager for ‘Aquaculture and Sustainable Seafood’ at the Beijer Institute at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but is also a senior researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University.

With a background in systems and marine ecology, he has worked on sustainability issues from a broader social-ecological perspective. His work spans several dimensions of sustainability linked to aquatic systems and resources - including how aquaculture and fisheries are linked. But he also studies the links between marine and terrestrial production, and how climate and globalisation create both opportunities and challenges.

He has contributed to the EAT-Lancet commission and had a leading role in the ”Blue Food Assessment” and is now leading work within SeaBOS focusing on antibiotic use in aquaculture.

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Geoengineering: Science Fiction or an Element for a Sustainable Future?

This event is funded by KVA and SFF 2022 through the Swedish National Committee for Global Environmental Change.

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The Purpose of National Committees

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is the principal of 18 Swedish national committees within different fields that amongst other things also represent Sweden in the international scientific unions that are included in ISC (International Science Council). The tasks of the national committees shall also be:

• to support research and education within its discipline
• to work for collaboration with related branches of research
• to work to enhance the status of the discipline in society (school, the public and the business sector)
• to make themselves available as advisory bodies for universities and other parts of the educational system
• to function as an expert organ for the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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