An additional SEK 20 million is invested by the Government in developing a national competence platform and further training in artificial intelligence. Umeå University, which has a prominent research within AI in healthcare and forest industry, is one of seven universities participating. The initiative enables a strengthened supply of skills in northern Sweden.

Time: Fri 2019-06-14 10.00 Location: sal FA31, AlbaNova universitetscentrum, Roslagstullsbacken 21, Stockholm Type of event: Dissertations

The European Commission’s 2018 climate neutrality strategy, ‘A Clean Planet for all’, states that reaching its goal ‘will require increasing amounts of biomass compared to today’s consumption.’ Whether the transport sector can meet targets depends on the pathways chosen now.

New study shows connections between global environmental degradation and tax havens published in Nature Ecology and Evolution. On average 68% of all investigated foreign capital to sectors associated with deforestation of the Amazon rainforest was transferred through tax havens. 70% of the known fishing vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing are, or have been, registered in tax havens. Loss of tax revenue caused by tax havens should be considered as indirect subsidies to economic activities with detrimental environmental consequences.