Jorgen Randers
Climate strategy professor and author
Jørgen Randers is a Norwegian professor emeritus of climate strategy and a co-author of The Limits to Growth. He is also among the authors of Earth for All.
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About Jorgen Randers
Jørgen Randers was born in 1945. He is an emeritus professor of climate strategy at the BI Norwegian Business School. His work centers on the future, with a focus on sustainability, climate, energy and system dynamics. He lectures and advises internationally, and increasingly in China. He has spent roughly a third of his career each in academia, business and the non-profit world. He served as president of BI Norwegian Business School from 1981 to 1989, and in 2005 and 2006 he chaired the Royal Commission that set out how Norway could cut its climate gas emissions by two thirds by 2050. Randers began his writing career as a co-author of The Limits to Growth in 1972. Later books include 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years and Reinventing Prosperity, written with Graeme Maxton. He is also among the authors of Earth for All, a survival guide for humanity. Within the Club of Rome he holds full membership and is the founding chair of its China Chapter.