Peter Carlsson on how the global battery race should be run
China’s headstart complicates the journey to sustainability, says the boss of Northvolt
ONE OF MY most harrowing, and motivating, meetings of the past few months was with Johan Rockström, a fellow Swede and globally leading researcher of climate impact at the Potsdam Institute. He told me that although we are trying to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, today’s projections show a trend towards a 2.8-2.9°C increase. That would mean a very different world from the one we currently live in.
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