{"id":416705,"date":"2010-03-11T10:25:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"11528 at http:\/\/www.wri.org"},"modified":"2010-03-11T10:25:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T14:25:45","slug":"former-swedish-prime-minister-goran-persson-joins-wri-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/416705","title":{"rendered":"Former Swedish Prime Minister G\u00f6ran Persson Joins WRI Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

Also available in Swedish<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former Prime Minister of Sweden G\u00f6ran Persson<\/a> has been elected to the Board of Directors<\/a> of the World Resources Institute (WRI)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrime Minister Persson\u2019s record of building long-term and ambitious environmental policies is exceptional,\u201d said Jonathan Lash<\/a>, WRI president. \u201cFacing the most important challenge of our time \u2013 climate change \u2013 he has led by example and helped Sweden go further than required by the Kyoto Protocol.\u201d<\/p>\n

Persson served as prime minister from 1996 to 2006. He led the reduction in Sweden\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions by 13.5 percent between 1996 and 2005, and set a national target to reduce emissions to 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. In 2007, he was awarded the Sophie Prize<\/a> for his leadership on climate policy. Prior to serving as Prime Minister, he served as finance and education minister, as a member of parliament, and was a local politician.<\/p>\n

Persson serves as chairman of three other boards: Scandinavian Air Ambulance Holding<\/a>, Scandinavian Biogas<\/a>, and Sveaskog<\/a>, which is Sweden\u2019s largest forest owner and leading supplier of timber, pulpwood, and biofuel. The company is government-owned and uses sustainable management methods in which forest lands are grown faster than they are felled. It is also one of the largest forest owners in all of Europe. Further, he is a member of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation<\/a> and, in 2007, released his memoirs, Min V\u00e4g, Mina Val (My Path, My Choices)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Persson joins WRI\u2019s current board members: Chairman James A. Harmon, Vice Chair Harriet (Hattie) Babbitt, Chairman Emeritus William D. Ruckelshaus, Vice-Chair Emeritus Alice (Tish) F. Emerson, Roberto Artavia, Frances Beinecke, Afsaneh Beschloss, Antony Burgmans, Fernando Henrique Carsdoso, Robin Chase, Leslie Dach, Daniel L. Doctoroff, Jamshyd N. Godrej, Al Gore, Chen Jining, Jonathan Lash, Kathleen McGinty, Douglas R. Oberhelman, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Michael Polsky, C.K. Prahalad, Theodore Roosevelt IV, Stephen M. Ross, Alison Sander, James Gustave Speth, Lee M. Thomas, Todd S. Thomson, Dr. Susan Tierney, Diana H. Wall, and Daniel Weiss.<\/p>\n

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G\u00f6ran Persson tar plats i styrelsen f\u00f6r World Resources Institute<\/h3>\n

WASHINGTON DC, 9 mars, 2010 \u2013 F\u00f6rre statsministern G\u00f6ran Persson<\/a> har i dag blivit invald i styrelsen<\/a> f\u00f6r World Resources Institute (WRI)<\/a>, en milj\u00f6politisk tankesmedja i Washington DC.<\/p>\n

“G\u00f6ran Perssons arbete f\u00f6r att skapa en l\u00e5ngsiktig och ambiti\u00f6s milj\u00f6politik \u00e4r exeptionellt\u201d, s\u00e4ger Jonathan Lash<\/a>, WRIs generalsekreterare. “Under hans ledning har Sverige svarat p\u00e5 v\u00e5r tids st\u00f6rsta milj\u00f6politiska utmaning \u2013 klimatfr\u00e5gan \u2013 genom att g\u00e5 f\u00f6re och \u00f6vertr\u00e4ffa Kyotoprotokollets krav.”<\/p>\n

Sverige hade \u00e5r 2005 minskat sina utsl\u00e4pp av v\u00e4xthusgaser med 13,5 procent j\u00e4mf\u00f6rt med 1996 och lagt fast ett nationellt m\u00e5l om en utsl\u00e4ppsminskning p\u00e5 \u00e5tminstone 25 procent fr\u00e5n 1990 till 2020. G\u00f6ran Persson, som var statsminister fr\u00e5n 1996 till 2006, tilldelades \u00e5r 2007 Sofie-priset<\/a> f\u00f6r sitt klimatpolitiska ledarskap.<\/p>\n

I styrelsen blir G\u00f6ran Persson kollega med bland andra USAs f\u00f6rre vicepresident Al Gore, Unilevers f\u00f6rre ordf\u00f6rande Antony Burgmans och Brasiliens f\u00f6rre president Fernando Henrique Cardoso. WRI har 200 medarbetare i Washington DC och samarbetar aktivt med myndigheter, f\u00f6retag och milj\u00f6organisationer \u00f6ver hela v\u00e4rlden f\u00f6r att oms\u00e4tta kunskap i handling. WRI har nyligen utn\u00e4mnts till en av v\u00e4rldens b\u00e4sta milj\u00f6politiska tankesmedjor av University of Pennsylvania. Bland v\u00e4lk\u00e4nda f\u00f6retagspartners m\u00e4rks IKEA, General Electric, General Motors och Apple.<\/p>\n

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Also available in Swedish. Former Prime Minister of Sweden G\u00f6ran Persson has been elected to the Board of Directors of the World Resources Institute (WRI). \u201cPrime Minister Persson\u2019s record of building long-term and ambitious environmental policies is exceptional,\u201d said Jonathan Lash, WRI president. \u201cFacing the most important challenge of our time \u2013 climate change \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}