How Ghana and Norway are taking the UN sustainability goals by storm | Hilde Opoku | TEDxTrondheim
Hilde Opoku |
TEDxTrondheim
• October 2017
Western societies have been trying to clean up their act for decades. However, that clean-up has had very dirty consequences, but there is hope. Listen to Hilde Opoku's story of how Ghana and Norway are forging ahead as leaders in the fight for a better environment for all. Hilde Opoku is Deputy Mayor and Leader of the Green Party in Trondheim. Former spokesperson for the Green Party in Norway from 2014 to 2016, Hilde is a political scientist with a specialization in industrial ecology. She previously worked at the Department of Industrial Ecology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), before entering politics in 2003 when she was elected to the city council of Trondheim.
Born and raised in Trondheim, Hilde Opoku has studied and worked in the US, Ghana, Iceland and England. Passionate about creating greener environments and balancing the well-being of people, technology and the environment, she was recently asked to be special advisor for sustainable development in Ghana.
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