Climate| Tough climate targets are good only when terms are global, concludes Maria Sunér Fleming of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. The conference made progress on global climate issues, but there is still much to do.

Higher Vocational Education| Vocational courses run under the Swedish National Agency for Higher Vocational Education bring results in good times and bad. Statistics released recently show that more than 80% of these courses lead to jobs on completion—in both strong and weak economic times. This success is based on flexibility and close collaboration with the business sector.