Sweden

Swedish hydropower and the EU Water Framework Directive

SEI report / This project report examines how Sweden is trying to bring hydropower governance into line with the EU Water Framework Directive.

The relative importance of subjective and structural factors for individual adaptation to climate change by forest owners in Sweden

Journal article / This study focuses on the process of individual adaptation to climate change among forest owners in Sweden

Towards systemic and contextual priority setting for implementing the 2030 Agenda

Journal article / This paper presents a new approach that provides a deeper understanding of how multiple Sustainable Development Goal targets interact in a given context.

CoCliME

Project / CoCliME – co-development of climate services for adaptation to changing marine ecosystems – will develop climate services for marine systems in Europe.

The trouble with negative emissions

Past event / Kevin Anderson, professor in climate and energy, delivered the annual Gordon Goodman Memorial Lecture on 21 September 2017.

Swedish heat energy system – new tensions and lock-ins after a successful transition

SEI brief / This policy brief highlights the successes and challenges Sweden's heat energy system faces as it moves towards a low carbon energy system.

Sweden must take global responsibility for climate change

Perspective / New research points to major challenges if we fail to slow down global warming. Sweden's vision to become the first fossil-free welfare state is not enough.

Whose hydropower? From conflictual management into an era of reconciling environmental concerns

Journal article / A discussion of reshaping hydropower governance towards win-win solutions.

SEI at Almedalsveckan 2017

Past event / SEI was convening and participating in 19 seminars and debates at the Almedalsveckan 2017, Sweden's largest political event.