Minister of Environment Andreas Carlgren of Sweden
The board employs about one hundred persons and Andreas Carlgren is the director-general.
Andreas Carlgren was born in Västra Ryd, Stockholm County, Sweden.
In 2000 Carlgren was appointed as director-general of the Swedish Integration Board.
Carlgren has three children from his previous marriage.
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New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Reducing pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are warming the earth's atmosphere makes sound economic sense, Sweden's Minister for Environment Andreas Carlgren said here Monday.
Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren praised the show as "incomparably splendid" and said it presented a kind of beauty that could nourish ones spirit.
Stockholm - An upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poland was an important "halfway stage" to review efforts to forge a new climate deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012, Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren said Wednesday.
Stockholm - A proposal that current Swedish fuel prices should be doubled to reduce greenhouse gas emissions was "not on the cards," Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren said Monday.
While declining to give an exact figure, Carlgren said that fuel taxes would likely be raised as part of the government's "pending package to tackle climate change" due to be presented next year.
Carlgren said the package would likely have to include some form of compensation for people who lack alternative means of transport.
We came further in our discussions and achieved much more than I imagined that we would," Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren said Thursday after a four day informal meeting on climate change attended by officials from 30 countries at the invitation of the Swedish government.
Carlgren said the discussions enabled the ministers and other high level officials to have a clear picture of the positions of different countries in advance of the important forthcoming UN climate change conference at Bali, Indonesia in December.
We were the only government to maintain this proposal for any length of time,' Carlgren said in an interview with Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet.
Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren said the application from Nord Stream, the Russian-German joint venture, was "incomplete," adding that he was "surprised" that the application submitted in December lacked so many key details.
Carlgren said the government was not prepared to review an incomplete application and had sent a letter to Nord Stream advising the group to that affect.
Inaugurating a seminar on environmental technology for sustainable urban development, organised by the CII here on Tuesday, Swedish Minister for Environment Andreas Carlgren said that carbon dioxide emissions had been brought down by almost 9 per cent since 1990 when several taxes and incentives were introduced.
Carlgren expressed confidence that India could deal with them.
Reducing pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are warming the earths atmosphere makes sound economic sense, Swedens Minister for Environment Andreas Carlgren said here Monday.
Reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions makes sound economic sense, Carlgren said at the seminar jointly organised by the Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development run by the Confederation of Indian Industry and ITC Ltd, the Swedish Embassy in New Delhi and the Swedish Trade Council.
Pointing out that India and Sweden are about to sign a memorandum of understanding in the field of environment, Carlgren said this would provide many opportunities to cooperate for the public, civil society, Swedish businesses and academia in the sustainable development of Indias urban centres using environmental technologies.
Carlgren said potential eco-car buyers had sufficient time to buy their vehicle, and the rules concerning what cars could get a rebate would not be changed.
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var PageContent= ' Stockholm - A timetable for a new climate deal was one of the main outcomes Sweden hoped for at the upcoming United Nations climate change conference to be hosted by Indonesia, Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren said Wednesday.
The conference to be held in Bali runs from December 3 to 14, and Carlgren was slated to attend along with Trade Minister Ewa Bjorling and State Secretary Ingemar Hansson of the Finance Ministry.
The big aim for the Bali meeting is to initiate talks aimed at reaching a comprehensive deal in Copenhagen 2009,\' Carlgren said with reference to the UN Climate Summit to be hosted by neighbouring Denmark in December 2009.
and State Secretary Ingemar Hansson of the Finance Ministry.
Minister Andreas Carlgren said Wednesday.
Carlgren said the Poznan parley would, however, offer a chance to have \'informal contacts\' with representatives of US President-elect Barack Obama, who were to be part of the US delegation.
Carlgren expressed concern over deforestation, saying that it \'contributed to 20 per cent of emissions\' of climate changing gases, and said the issue needed to be addressed.
While Sweden was, comparatively a major funder of the transfer of technology, Carlgren said it was necessary to push for market-driven solutions.
Carlgren said his meetings with representatives from China indicated a growing awareness and \'self-interest\' to reduce emissions but Beijing was still waiting for the new US administration to show its hand.
Barack Obama, who were to be part of the US delegation.
and said the issue needed to be addressed.
SAFER ROUTE?Carlgren said a safer alternative could be a more eastern route, which would effectively shift the link south and possibly into the territorial waters of the Baltic states.
With the information we have at the moment I see it as excluded that a pipeline over land would be possible, Carlgren was quoted as telling Swedish radio.
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Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren has written to the Commission to ensure that the objectives of REACH are realised, so that end-users can handle them safely and make conscious purchase decisions.
Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren had therefore written a letter to the Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, Gunter Verheugen , and the Commissioner for the Environment, Stavros Dimas, to increase their efforts to agree on guidelines that fulfil the REACH objectives.
Sweden plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2020, bettering the EU's proposal to cut emissions by at least 20 percent, Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren said on Tuesday.
Carlgren says that he has since rectified the error.
It was as a result of a failure to supply income details from the Centre Party and Vin & Sprit that Carlgren received a parliamentary income guarantee that was too high, according to Sveriges Radio.
Carlgren was then pushed to make contact with the parliamentary authorities and rectify the situation.
Science Technology: 14 Jan 09Mercury is to be banned in Sweden starting June 1st, environment minister Andreas Carlgren has announced.
National: 31 Oct 07Sweden wants alternative routes to be considered for a Baltic Sea pipeline supplying Russian natural gas to western Europe, now planned to run through Swedish waters, Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren said on Wednesday.
Politics: 3 Oct 07Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren is calling for foods sold in Swedish stores to be marked with information detailing the effects of production on the global climate.
National: 22 Oct 06Sweden's environment minister Andreas Carlgren has reacted strongly after Icelandic whalers made their first kille following the country's decision to resume commercial whaling.
Politics: 12 Oct 06Environment minister Andreas Carlgren has admitted that he supplied false income details after leaving parliament in 1998, giving him a higher income guarantee than he should have had.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Jan 14 (UPI) -- Mercury will be banned in Sweden starting June 1, government officials announced Wednesday.