 Hi, I'm Ludwig Dever, Deputy Commissioner in General for Sweden at the Expo 2020 Dubai. Now we are here outside the Swedish pavilion The Forest, a pavilion completely made out of wood. Let's take a stroll. So, completely made of wood? Yeah. Where do you get those trees from? The trees are 300 tree trunks from the regions of Dalarna and Westmanland in Sweden. 50 of them are supporting the tree houses, as you can see. And the others are here just to create the illusion of the forest. So, who's the architect? Who designed this? So, we have three architects, Alessandro Ripellino, Adrian Garder and Luigi Pardo. All right. It's very special pavilion, no? I hope it stands out. It's what we're very aiming for. What are the stories we see here on the people? This is a temporary exhibition that we have made that's called Accessibility. Since this is the Tolerance and Inclusivity Week here at Expo, we have wanted to show how we in Sweden are working with tolerance and inclusivity matters. So, people of determination, for instance, how they can actually flourish and make something out of themselves regardless of the different challenges we have in life. It's very important to include everyone and that's part of Sweden that we would like to. There's always more that can be done, right? There's always more that can be done. And a lot more that should be done, right? It's fair to say, everywhere, kind of. Yeah, definitely. But is Sweden one of the best places to take care of everybody? Well, we have a model that we are very proud of and that we would like to show here at Expo 2020. I think that we have, as everyone, always more to learn and that's why it's so important to come together here at Expo and other venues to... So, everybody always talks about the Swedish model. What model are you talking about here? So, the Swedish model is actually different models. We can talk about the Swedish workplace model, the people come together from the employers, the employees to discuss the labour terms. It's one of the Swedish models. The Swedish forest. And we're entering the forest here at the World Expo. And on the right I see the world and it says circular is natural. What would you say about that? So, this is the first cluster of the Swedish pavilion, the bio-circular economy. So, in this sector, this cluster, we are showing how Swedish companies and their solutions, how they are contributing to a more bio-circular economy. And here you could actually, you could steer with the help of our guides. Yeah, you could see her. Alright. More and more in the cluster and then you could... The trees come to life. You talk about sustainable packaging solutions here. What do you do with that? So, here we have different forms of wood and how wood can be used. So, if we start over here, we could have the three fibres that could be used to actually create clothing. We have this, that it's the cross-laminated wood. Also, sustainable way of producing buildings that we have used here. So, here you see all the tree trunks that we have brought from Sweden. The building wood is of course a very sustainable construction practice that we'd like to showcase. And this week we have been building in woods for... Millenia? Well, we've been building in wood for many years. That's true. What is unique with this building is that we have also built the foundation of this pavilion in wood as well, which is quite unique, not the least in this region. So, actually this stuff under here... Yes. There's a desert down here, right? Well, so below us right now, below these stones are actually even more wood. That is placed on sand with a thin layer of film glass. So, it's actually 50% almost of the wood that we're using below us and 50% that you actually see. All right. So, people walk here. And there's like a metallic reflective structure and decide to give an impression that it's double the size, no? And you have many topics going on here. What are the topics you're talking about? So, we have all in all five clusters in the Swedish pavilion. So, we started with the bio-circular economy. We have the next generations travel and transport. We have connected industry, new materials. We have life science around the corner. And then we finish everything off with smart societies. What's going on here with the smarter industry? So, here you could see some showcases of the Swedish companies. In this case, AstraZeneca, how they are working in a smarter way to produce the industry of tomorrow. AstraZeneca is not a Swedish, right? It's a Swedish-British company. So, the Astra part of AstraZeneca is from Sweden. All right. We can walk over to the smart city. So, here's another example of how Swedish companies are actually creating the smart city of the future. Do they light up in certain ways in this demonstration? Yes, we could actually have one of our guides, Orsi, who could show exactly how this works. Orsi, could you please show us how this feature is working? Sorry, we don't have you some. Maybe I can explain. If you can click right there. So, this is an imaginary city with solutions from Sweden by companies that are presenting their products and solutions for sustainable cities that comes to environment, social aspects and economical aspects as well. So, as to do with the electric cars, for example, designing the city in a different way? Solutions we have is Electric Ferry, for example, in Stockholm that drives between the old town and the small islands. It can supercharge in 10 minutes and it drives with 98 passengers for another 50 minutes. All the buses in Sweden run on biofuel, which means it's plant-based. All the trains in Sweden are electric as well. Then we have Garbage Solution, which is under Earth, and it means that there is a garbage collection centre in a corner of residential neighbourhood and with 67 km per hour, the garbage bags are sucked to a collection point and then it gets collected from there. It is very environmentally friendly because it uses, of course, the trucks need less fuel and, of course, they don't cross so many intersections either, so it's more environmentally friendly. Then we have connected ambulances with 5G to the hospitals, so some of the tests can be already done in the ambulance cars so the patients get quicker help when they arrive to the hospital. Do they light up in a certain way when people click? Yes, of course. So you can try to click? Yes, whenever I click on a different option, let's say planes, then it lights up with airplanes. We have digital solutions for airports as well, meaning that an airport doesn't have to be at the same spot where the tower is and it's actually working like that too. And then if let's say I click on the buses and I click on one of those, then again it lights up in a different way, connecting all the buses in the city, meaning that you do not necessarily have to have a car when you live in a city because everything is available either by public transport or walking distance. Who designed this? It was actually designed by several companies together because they present solutions in the different topics and it was an artist lady who came up with the glass structures and then of course some of them you can interpret as 5G or information flow, even you can think about a hyperloop, then some of these crystal elements can be interpreted as rivers or green areas because within a city you also need to have place for people where they can do recreation and the Swedish law is you have to live within 400 meters to your doorstep to a green area, either a park or to forest. Thank you. Well, you could easily think so, but it's actually the amount of biofuel that we were using earlier on and you can see now how much more it is today. We can see here our coal use from how it changed from 1970 to today so it's been actually going down quite drastically. You can also see the hydrogen wind over here and nuclear that's had its peak a couple of decades ago but it's actually been going down. Some of the centrals are being closed down though and stuff, the nuclear plants. Well, we have closed down a few of them but we are dependent on them. The one near Copenhagen, I'm joking. What's with the stage? No, so this is our co-creation stage. So this is used for a variety of different activities on our inauguration. We had several speeches, some artists that performed here. We also, for the Cinnamon Bun Day, we made the longest line of Cinnamon Buns in a row, actually achieving a Guinness World Record. We also had a few seminars, we had a few showcases of Swedish sustainable products as well and now we are showing some films about Sweden. Pioneerly possible together, high-tech innovations but also landscapes of Sweden to get a better idea of Sweden as a country. What's the position of Sweden in terms of world leadership and clean technology? You're doing a lot of wind and stuff, right? You're doing a lot of renewables. So it's very important for us to, thanks to technology and with the help of technology, try to find new solutions regardless of the field that they are in. I think that's something that we are very proud of in Sweden to have many of those companies with us here that are actually industry leaders. So they have a chance to actually showcase what they are doing, showing their solutions here at the Expo in the Swedish pavilion. So we're seeing a little bit of that in the background right now. Is this an interactive bubble table? Yes, so this is a co-creation table. So the more people that are joining this table with their hands, now it's only me, it's just a little bit of music and it's a little bit of movement, a little bit of light but the more people joining, the louder the music gets, the more lives we will have to showcase of how to do things together. Our motto for this participation here is co-creation for innovation. We believe that it's the co-creative efforts that lead to the best results. We have the government, companies, academia and yours. We need everyone together and we need to cooperate also among countries. That's why it's so important that we are present at this global arena that is Expo 2020. Here I see something to do with digital health. We could also have Abdullah to just click on a few buttons here to see what you could learn here at the co-creation table. So you're talking about utilized organs. Basically we have two versions of this map. The first version of it is about the top 10 reasons that people are dying from essentially diseases or events. We have in Africa we have HIV, causing at least 28% of death for the people in the middle ages in the 30s and the 49s. And the map allows you to scale the cursor in the future to see what the future data looks like, 40 years in the future. The expectation says that the road accidents will be causing at least 13.6% of death in the African region throughout. And this applies to the rest of the world as well. In the European region in 2016 for the people in the middle ages ischemic or chronic heart diseases causes at least 11% of death. There's too many. Oh yeah, probably. And also the same thing applies so if you scale the cursor up you find that mental health depreciation causes people to self-harm at the rate of 12.4%. But all these things can be prevented. Definitely. Let's prevent the self-harm problems. Let's prevent the heart disease and the tuberculosis and HIV. The point of this future data is to be able to work on an innovative medical solutions now. So you'd be able to predict the kind of the most optimal solution for that. The other version of this map is ranking of the countries worldwide based on essentially the quality of their organ donation systems. So on the right you have the total transplanted organs in that particular country. On the left you have the success rate of planting organs per millions of people. So worldwide at the moment we have Spain and followed by the US and France. Similarly you can choose region-wise in Europe and Middle East and elsewhere as well. Some parts of the world don't have data on the topic so it's understandable. However in the Middle East we have Kuwait and as well as other regions as well. The moment let's go back to the Middle East and the previous map. So we have the moment people in the Middle Ages are mostly dying from ischemic heart disease at the rate of 15.6%. And then it's kind of like war and stuff that shouldn't be happening. And the road industry should be covered by self-driving cars. Yes they say that that might be one of the solutions to road accidents. However that doesn't prevent people from obtaining more cars and more congestions in cities. So that's likely going to increase road accidents and increase the likelihood of having road injury. How do you predict all those things? Is it a bunch of algorithms? We are using data from World Health Organization to do that. Alright, thanks a lot. So this was the live science cluster. We will continue on to the smart society cluster. Could also have a look over here. And Assad here could help us with how this installation works. Can you guide us through it? Hello everyone. So you're here at the smart society table. And from here you have the opportunity to have a quick recap as to what you covered throughout your visit here at the Pavilion. But it's also your opportunity to give us feedback as to what you found most interesting. Yeah, so these were the different parts of the Pavilion. Smart city, life science, next generation transport and travel, circular bioeconomy as well as connected industry. And what happens when you click on one of these? So when you click on one of them you can then go ahead and look at the different categories. And the innovation technologies they're going to be coming up over here. So for instance this is one of the technologies that a lot of people find very interesting. It's the electric and autonomous buses. Especially by the Volvo group. Do you have them deployed in Sweden? Only for trials. Only for trials so far. And the last part is to drag the blueprint. You just push the blueprint into the earth. But then that then contributes to the statistics that form part of the smart society. And as you can see over there there's a pie chart. And you can throw another one to the pie chart? Sure, I'll do that. So here are some delivery drones that I'm swiping into the pie chart. Nice. Do you have them deployed with the delivery drones? Not yet. Drones have been more and more used in Sweden as in many other countries. By both the authorities and of course for private use as well. But not for delivery so far. But in the future we hope. Yeah. Some of these things would be nice to see them happen soon. Some countries let's say Sweden need to jump in and make things happen faster and sooner. Right? All these things. Well that's why we're here. To showcase a little bit of our thinking and the idea solutions that Swedish companies bring to the table. And I want to show you one last thing before we leave the pavilion as we are now at the final stage of the pavilion. You cannot come to this forest without planting a tree to contributing. So what you can do is you go into the gift shop and you buy a wooden coin. And then with the wooden coin you could actually with this installation choose to plant a tree. So what you do here is you choose your tree. You press the button. And then a tree will be planted in cooperation with our NGO partner the agroforestry. And then a tree will be planted in the wall. So you contribute also to planting a tree. Planted in Sweden? No. It will be mainly in a few African countries that they are working in. All right. And last step of course we have sustainability and everything we do. And that also goes for the gift shop Transparal. So here you can find a great variety of Swedish items. So these are very special designs. What is special with this product is that you could actually see the climate impact here and you could compensate for it. You can see that the 8.53 kilograms of carbon dioxide it's equal to 4.05 dirhams. So you could easily when buying this item you could compensate for it. So it's CO2 neutral when you buy it. You can have a bar, right? A restaurant. We have an IKEA café that's open to the public. Of course it's having meatballs. Is it open? It's open. So we have it here on the front. You could have the meatballs of course both with meat and the plant balls. You could have some Swedish dime cake. You could have cinnamon buns. You could have a few other sweets. You could have some coffee, some drinks. And you also have a terrace up there on top. Yes. So we have it serving. And here's the outside and as well as upstairs. Alright. Cool. So thanks a lot. And there are a lot of discussions during the expo with the... Thank you. I guess there's lots of discussions, lots of heads of state or traditions or attendees, companies to come and discuss to get the right contact in the country to start business, right? No, it's definitely a great meeting venue for both business and for governments to come together to discuss the solutions that the world is facing and the global solutions that we need to reach. So I think the expo 2020 is such a perfect venue to do these discussions. I guess there's also, let's say, there's an EU. There's also all these Scandinavian countries together doing... Coming together at the COP26, for example, doing... Trying to get things going faster just in Scandinavia together. Definitely. Our Nordic friends, these Scandinavian friends are among our most like-minded and we do a lot of things together. We have a great cooperation here at the expo as well with our Nordic friends to drive our priorities forward together.