Marie Rødsten Sagen

Climate Change and Sustainability Coordinator, Bergen Water
Marie Rødsten Sagen is an environmental engineer responsible for benchmarking, strategy and sustainability initiatives at the Bergen Water Utility (Norway). Previously she worked as Manager of Technology and Business Development at the startup Inver... Read full biography
May 3, 2022
Like all countries across the globe, Norway is not immune to climate change. Increased precipitation and extreme weather events in the country mean that water and wastewater systems have a growing vulnerability to water-related ri...
August 1, 2017
In an instant, Copenhagen was transformed into a scene from a Hollywood disaster movie. We were soaked to the bones in seconds, and the road we were walking down turned into a wild river of rainwater with a pinch of sewage. My fri...
January 19, 2017
As the sun sets over the lush fields in the Indian city of Kolkata, it suddenly dawns upon me: this is the circular economy in action. It may be a low-income, low-tech, low-scale setting, but the scene before me is an example of t...