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Per Kågeson', (born 14 April 1947) in Trollhättan is a Swedish author, scientist, debater and consultant within the area of environmental protection. During the 1970s and 80s, Kågeson was a leading representative for the oppostition of nuclear energy.
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Biography
Per Olof Ragnar Kågeson holds a Ph.D. in environment and energy system analysis from the Lund University and is the author of more than 30 books. He was professor in environment system analysis at the Centre for Transport Studies of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and part-time director of Nature Associates, a small private consultancy.
Kågeson specialized in the cost-efficiency of measures and policies for improving the environmental performance of transport and has done extensive work on emissions trading, vehicle and fuel taxation, fuel efficiency requirements, and the internalization of external costs. Several of his reports and papers deal with the environmental problems of international shipping. He is also the author of books on nuclear power and on the environmental aspects of power production in general.
As president of the European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E) in 1992, Kågeson started an NGO campaign for making the European Union adopt mandatory fuel efficiency standards for passenger cars, and he has since written several reports, papers and books on this subject. Such standards were finally introduced in Europe in 2008.
In 1998, Kågeson analysed the possibilities for cycle-beating available to the automotive industry. He showed what European legislators needed to do to prevent manufacturers from making a vehicle's computer recognize when the car was driven according to the official test cycle and when used in real traffic. In 2015, it was revealed that the Volkswagen Group had used precisely this type of cycle-beating in more than 11 million vehicles, in order to allow them much higher emissions of nitrogen oxides when used in real traffic compared to when being driven according to the test cycle.
Appointments
Kågeson was president of the Swedish Writers' Union (1984-1987), member of the Environmental Advisory Council of the Swedish government (1983-1994), president of the European Federation for Transport and Environment (1992-1996) and member of the European Commission's consultative forum on the environment and sustainable development (1997-2001). He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.