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Sweden is a world leader in sustainable consumption research and practice. Come and learn about the PRINCE project, which developed a unique set of indicators to measure the environmental impacts linked to Swedish consumption, and how its findings are being used in policy and research.
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This seminar focuses on PRINCE, a research project set up to develop a new framework for monitoring the environmental impacts linked to Swedish consumption – both inside and outside Sweden’s borders – using the latest modelling and statistical techniques.
PRINCE – for Policy-Relevant Indicators for National Consumption and Environment – was a response to a call from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management (SwAM). It was closely linked to Sweden’s Generational Goal, the overarching objective of Swedish environmental policy:
to hand over to the next generation a society in which the major environmental problems in Sweden have been solved, without increasing environmental and health problems outside Sweden’s borders.
The three-year research project (2015–2018) developed a tailored model for providing regularly updated national-level indicators for a broad range of environmental pressures, from GHG and air pollutant emissions to material, land and water footprints.
It also developed world-first consumption-based indicators for categories of chemicals: use, emissions and potential impacts of hazardous chemical products, along with pesticides and veterinary antimicrobials.
Other case studies pushed back the boundaries of consumption-based accounting in areas such as capture fisheries, cargo shipping emissions, land-use change and deforestation and the societal benefits of consumption in producer countries.
In this seminar, jointly organized by KTH Royal Institute of Technology and SEI, two of the PRINCE project partners, you can learn about PRINCE, the chemicals indicators, and how the project’s findings and technical breakthroughs are being used in policy and new research.
12:45 Fika
PRINCE: Methodology and results
Ellie Dawkins SEI/KTH
Use and emissions of hazardous chemicals from Swedish consumption
Göran Finnveden KTH
Application of results nationally and regionally
Viveka Palm SCB/KTH
Rebound effects and calculation tools: How PRINCE methods and results are used in MISTRA’s Sustainable Consumption research programme
Hanna Eggestrand, KTH and Nils Brown SCB
Questions and discussion
The event will be held in English.
Project / PRINCE is a cross-disciplinary project aiming to develop a sound and repeatable methodology to monitor the environmental impacts of Swedish consumption.
Other publication / This report summarises the findings of the PRINCE, a project to develop state-of-the-art indicators of the environmental impacts of Swedish consumption.
Feature / The final report of the PRINCE research project outlines new methods for accurate and comprehensive national consumption-based environmental accounts.
Project / Understanding local government drivers for sustainable consumption (UNLOCK) investigates how incentive structures shape sustainable consumption behaviours.
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