From Moon Landings to City Shots: For Climate-Neutral Cities | 2024 Nordic Innovation Summit

2024 Nordic Innovation Summit
Presented by Washington State Department of Commerce
May 13-14, 2024
National Nordic Museum

Keynote: "From Moon Landings to City Shots: Collaboration to Make Stockholm Climate-Neutral by 2030"
Karin Ekdahl Wästberg, Director of Innovation, City of Stockholm

Keynote: "From Moon Landings to City Shots: How to "Energize" Lund for Climate-Neutrality"
Markus Paulsson, Energy Strategist, City of Lund and Project Manager, CoAction Lund

Panel: "From Moon Landings to City Shots: For Climate-Neutral Cities"
Jessyn Farrell, Director, Office of Sustainability & Environment, City of Seattle
Markus Paulsson, Energy Strategist, City of Lund and Project Manager, CoAction Lund
Karin Ekdahl Wästberg, Director of Innovation, City of Stockholm
Linda Andrén, Executive Director Sweden-U.S. Green Transition Initiative (Moderator)

Inspired by NASA’s mission-to-the-moon program, Sweden launched a national innovation program a decade ago with the bold ambition to make the biggest cities in the country climate-neutral by 2030, twenty years ahead of the rest of the European Union.

Since its inception, the program has aimed for something more than zero emissions. It has been using a mission-oriented approach to unite people of all levels of society towards a common audacious mission of climate-neutral cities by 2030, with a good life for all within the planetary boundaries. The approach has proven very successful, which is why a lot of cities around the world set their eyes on what’s happening in Sweden.

Viable Cities, as the program is called, was indeed the first program of its kind in the world and has inspired the European Union to launch a mission of its own: making the 112 cities on the continent climate-neutral by 2030 too.

In this event, you will be able to listen to US and Swedish perspectives on mission-oriented policy innovation to arrive in climate-neutral cities by 2030. Different stakeholder groups will be present and share insights on mission-oriented collaboration for climate-neutral cities.
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About the Nordic Innovation Summit
The Nordic nations and the Pacific Northwest are home to some of the most innovative companies and policymakers anywhere in the world. The Nordic Innovation Summit, which has become North America’s leading event for Nordic innovation, was launched in 2018 by the National Nordic Museum.

The Nordic Innovation Summit brings together thought leaders in innovation and technology to exchange ideas, discuss issues, and explore opportunities of mutual concern; the goal is to accelerate innovation and jump-start economic and cultural exchange. The Summit draws high-level presenters and participants that include C-suite business leaders, innovators, tech investors, academics, NGO leaders, and policymakers from all five Nordic nations and the United States.

Learn more at nordicmuseum.org/innovation