Organizing a ‘green’ transition in the Swedish Arctic

Speaker: Johan Sandström, Professor in Accounting and Control

In the Swedish Arctic, massive investments are underway in 'green' steel with the promise of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The investments also promise economic development and attractive communities in a depopulating county. But the investments make great demands on places and people expected to make them possible. Against this background, different organizations have been created solely with the aim of mobilizing actors around the investments. Two such organizations, Bodenxt and AGON, are in focus in this presentation based on an on-going research project. How are they organized, whose interests do they represent, what influence do they have, and how are they held accountable? By studying how such initiatives function and exert influence, we learn more about how democratic and inclusive the investments are, whose interests are captured, and how accountability for possibly broken promises can be demanded.