After reading Earth4All and discovering the Club of Rome, I knew I had to get some of the authors onto the show, this is the 1st in 3 episodes with authors of the Earth4All Book and I am delighted to start with Anders Wijkman. Anders Wijkman is an opinionmaker and author. He is the Honorary President of the Club of Rome and Chair of the Governing Board of Climate-KIC – the largest public-private partnership on innovation for low-carbon solutions in the EU. He is a member of the International Resource Panel. During 2015-2016 he chaired the Swedish Cross-party Committee on Environmental Objectives, responsible for developing Sweden´s long-term strategy on Climate Change.
Anders has served as a Member of the European Parliament, as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP, as Secretary General of the Swedish Red Cross, as Secretary General of the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation and as Director General of SAREC (the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries).
Anders is a member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences as well as the Swedish Royal Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, the World Future Council and the World Academy of Arts and Science. Anders is an honorary doctor at Linköping University (2011). #earth4all #iregen #clubofrome #toolittletoolate #giantleap #planetaryboundaries
