Speakers:
Fredrik Hedenus
Fredrik Hedenus is a scientist in Physical Resource Theory at Chalmers in Göteborg, focusing on how we can cut down on the discharges of greenhouse gas from transports, industry, electronic products and agriculture in an effective way. He has also studied energy safety and global inequalities.
Per-Anders JandePer-Anders Jande is the head of information at Swedish Information about Food- and the Environment, SMMI, a non-profit organisation that spreads information about the impact food has on the environment and working for a sustainable food production.
Ellinor HallströmEllinor Hallström is a soon-to-be graduated nutritionist with a burning enthusiasm for food and its effects on our health and our environment.
Nils Nyberg
Nils Nyberg has written the book Våga välja världen – viktiga val varje dag ("Dare to choose the world – important every day choices"), “a practical handbook with down-to-earth advice about our different daily choices, with lots of good quotes.”
The book is distributed to every upper level of compulsory school and every high school in the region of Skåne.
It is of course valid to all young people.
Sven Heijbel
Sven Heijbel is a social entrepreneur and along with Oleg he runs “Wake Up Call” that works to make young people more involved in their own reality.
He has made a break from his medical studies, to be able to commit to our global challenges at full time.
By 2008 he was appointed climate ambassador by WWF after a trainee program in Arktis.
He also coaches his own team for the COP15 with a pioneering model of leadership and was thus recently nominated in category of “drive force of the year” in Levagalan 2009.
Oleg Izyumenko
Oleg is a social entrepreneur and, along with Sven, he runs “Wake Up Call”.
He was born in Russia, where he has been working through WWF and Greenpeace for the environment and democracy for his whole life.
With the knowledge of five languages and his great driving force he has been a great catalyst for the european climate movement. 2008 he was nominated to the Änglamarks award for his effort within the trade for social and environmentally sustainable food.
Erik Persson
Erik Persson has a doctor’s degree in philosophy at the university in Lund where he, up till this year, has been occupied by research and education in applied ethics, with a focus on environmental ethics. At the moment, Erik works for Nordic Genetic Resource Centre, which is part of the Nordic Council of Ministers, and works with the preservation of the genetic multitude among animals and plants within the agriculture and forest industry in the Nordic countries.
Linda Birkedal
Linda Birkedal is an environmental strategist at Lunds municipality with a certain responsibility for climate issues. She is also in the board for the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, both in Lund and for all of Sweden.
Her involvement in the environment started as early as in middle school, when she enlisted as a member of Åhus field biologists.
Åsa Knaggård
Åsa Knaggård is a researcher and teacher at the Department of Political Science at Lund University. She has recently defended her dissertation about how Swedish policy-makers have managed scientific uncertainty in the climate change issue. She also works with Lund University’s climate initiative that, among other things, aims at spreading the knowledge about climate change generated at the university.
Antje Jackelén
Antje Jackelén was ordained bishop in Uppsala Cathedral on April 15, 2007. She is Lund diocese's 68th bishop and was ordained priest in 1980 for Stockholm diocese. Between 2001 and 2007, Antje Jackelén worked as professor of systematic theology / religion and science at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago.
