16th August 2018
Stockholm, Sweden
In recent years an array of technological innovations and macroeconomic factors have acted in concert to instigate a complete transformation of the institutional framework and infrastructure that characterises today’s energy system and was initially conceived to support large centralised hydrocarbon energy generation. While the electricity grid (one of the most comprehensive and complicated infrastructure ever […]
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23rd February 2018
Stockholm, Sweden
In recent years, the UK Government has set out progressive energy policies to meet its ambitious legally binding decarbonisation target of an 80% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2050, in accordance with the UK Climate Change Act of 2008. Accordingly, the UK energy system is currently undergoing a period of significant transformation that will bring […]
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18th August 2015
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Four years after arriving here, I leave Stockholm at the end of this week for a new posting at the UK delegation to NATO in Brussels. I’m looking forward to the new job and new city. But it will be hard to leave Stockholm, and I will carry with me many memories of this wonderful […]
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22nd December 2014
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Today I am pleased to welcome a guest blogger on my blog, Sir David King, The Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative on Climate Change. He recently visited Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo and shares his experiences of sustainable urban transport: Sustainable Transport: A Tale of Three Cities. It was the worst of times for the climate; it […]
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16th October 2014
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16 October is Blog Action day. And this year’s theme is inequality. So here’s a blog about inequality. Tackling inequality is an important part of UK foreign policy. Two of our six human rights priorities are specifically about inequality, including women’s rights and freedom of religion and belief. For us, the promotion and protection of […]
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13th October 2014
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A new Swedish government has taken office. A new European Commission is about to. It seemed to me a good time to set out some thoughts on some of the big priorities facing the UK, Sweden and our EU partners over the coming months. Here’s a translation of the article I wrote for Saturday’s Dagens […]
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4th September 2014
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Last November I was in London with the Crown Princess and Prince Daniel. They visited Cambridge University, an inner-city London school, the Google Campus and Tech City in East London. It was the latter visits which inspired my Swedish counterpart in London and me to think about a follow-up event focusing on how the flourishing […]
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3rd September 2014
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On Thursday 4 and Friday 5 September the UK will host the NATO Summit in Newport, Wales. It will be the largest gathering of international leaders ever to take place in Britain. It will also be the first UK-hosted NATO Summit since the London meeting in 1990, which marked the end of the Cold War. […]
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30th June 2014
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Much ink has already been spilled (or many keys have already been tapped) in analysing the European Council’s decision to nominate Jean-Claude Juncker to head the European Commission. My government has been clear that the decision was wrong in principle, as a matter as process and as an issue of policy. For that reason the […]
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9th May 2014
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Britain and Sweden see eye to eye on the implications of the Ukraine crisis. Here’s a translation of the article I wrote for Swedish national newspaper Dagens Industri today. In less than three weeks’ time, the people of Ukraine go to the polls in Presidential elections that will determine the future direction of their country. According […]
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