Stora Enso is one of the big forest companies, a merger between Finnish and Swedish giants. Actually, Stora Enso calls itself a renewable materials company: “Our commitment to renewability is not only about our raw material. It is also linked to resource traceability and responsibility, production and material efficiency, logistics, and supply chain.” Last week, […]
I visited for the first time Australia in spring 2023. When the Qantas plane landed in Sydney, the first announcement acknowledged the First Nations peoples of Australia as the continuing custodians and traditional owners of the land. I was amazed and inspired because we had started to plan the next WGEA Assembly around the topic […]
Recently, we organized a hybrid meeting in a small island developing nation. It was special occasion as we hadn’t had a chance to meet face-to-face in three years. The main topic of the event was climate resilience. What could have been a more suitable location for such a topic! Small island developing states are low-lying […]
In the first Geography lectures our professor Aartolahti described the way a Geographer observes the world: by taking the globe in her hand. This came very vividly into my mind as I read Andrea Wulf’s marvellous book “The Invention of Nature” on Alexander von Humboldt and his impact on science. She made it so easy […]
Mining is a complex topic. People don’t want such nuisances nearby but instead somewhere else, preferably somewhere far away. A NIMBY phenomenon which isn’t about a backyard only but larger region or a whole country. At the same time, we need minerals for our phones and gadgets, not to mention the batteries for electric cars. […]
The Visual Capitalist just published a great map on the drainage basins of the World’s Longest Rivers. Drainage basin for geomorphology, or catchment area for hydrology, means the area where the water flows downstream and finally reaches the sea. It is clear from the map that many drainage basis do not follow the country boarders. […]
Exactly a year ago we didn’t go to the office anymore. One thing that pandemic has taught us by now, on an anniversary of the WHO’s declaration of pandemic, is to sit in endless zooms and teams and meets. It has been amazing to see how the international cooperation has kept on going in digital […]
I’ve done hundreds of interviews as a researcher and performance auditor. Some of the interviews are more interesting than others. No matter what the topic, the key is to listen carefully what people say and be honestly interested in that. That’s how you create a trusted environment and people talk to you. When I was […]
At the heart of sustainable development is the long-term approach, the famous future generations, that the Brundtland Commission so beautifully named as one key stakeholder in 1987. The importance of longer-termism is now gaining root among the investors and company leaders, as a recent article on ESG investment in Financial Times argued. On the one […]