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Bjørn K. Haugland

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Bjørn Kj. Haugland is Executive Vice President and the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) in DNV GL Group. He is responsible for DNV-GL Group's sustainability agenda and he is the Chairman of DNV GL Corporate Sustainability Board. Haugland has over 20 years of management experience in all DNV-GL business units including 6 years of assignments for DNV GL in Asia (Korea and China).

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Ready for an oil demand peak in 2023?

13 Sep 2018 Bjørn K. Haugland

electrification, Energy, energy transition, Future of Spaceship Earth, Global Opportunity Explorer, investment, Paris Agreement, renewable energy

Electrification and the rise of renewables are driving the transformation of the energy system, but not fast enough to reach the world 2030 agenda, according to the Energy Transition Outlook 2018. The world's energy demand will decline from 2035 onwa ...

Sustainable business 2018

12 Jan 2018 Bjørn K. Haugland

corporate sustainability, education, governance, inspiration, leadership, sharing, success metrics, transparency, UN Sustainable Development Goals, youth

12 years left to meet the world 2030 agenda. An agenda precisely and elegantly formulated by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. What is next for sustainable business? I have summarized 10 key takeaways from dialogues with corporate leaders. Some a ...

Smart containers ready to disrupt the seafood industry

28 Sep 2017 Bjørn K. Haugland

aquaculture, big data, food production, innovation, seafood, students, summer project, supply chain, sustainable transportation, technology, UN Sustainable Development Goals

The seafood industry must comply with increasingly strict demands from consumers on sustainable seafood production. For that reason, a group of graduates have spent their summer at DNV GL developing smart "robot containers" with cooling systems that ...

Sustainability: The Control of Loss to Our People, Planet and Profit

23 Nov 2018 Chris Urwin, Bjørn K. Haugland

accidents, emissions, International Sustainability Rating System, safety, sustainability loss, target zero, waste

Imagine a world where every organisation had zero accidents, zero carbon emissions, zero waste and zero use of non-renewable materials. Imagine a world where every community had zero people without good jobs, zero people without a good education and ...