Sweden

Paris minus the SDGs: a formula for inequality?

Perspective / The disconnect between global climate and sustainable development agendas is often reflected in policy incoherence at the national level fostering inequality.

Governing a fair transition to a fossil-free welfare society

Project / This project seeks to understand tensions in future consumption patterns in Sweden to ensure a fair transition to a fossil-free welfare society.

Two new techs to combat Baltic eutrophication get pre-commercialization boost

Press release / Testing has started on Aquacare and TerraNova technologies, which aim to recycle waste phosphorus as agricultural fertilizer, in demonstration sites in Sweden.

Climate solutions in Nordic cities can cut emissions and save money

Press release / SEI participated in the release of a report highlighting the contribution of innovative green solutions in Nordic cities to the reduction of carbon emissions.

Accelerating Agenda 2030: municipal planning for reduced climate footprints

Project / This project will help Swedish authorities to map and reduce emissions generated by consumption.

A journey through the history of the environment

Feature / For this year’s Gordon Goodman Memorial Lecture, environmental historian Sverker Sörlin examined the evolution of the concept of the environment.

Financing urban transitions

Program / This project aims to accelerate investment in viable cities by assessing needs, frameworks and conditions under which financiers and cities can collaborate.

Sweden takes the lead in measuring diverse environmental impacts of consumption

Press release / New accounting method developed by the Swedish consortium PRINCE could strengthen the follow-up of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Policy and Innovation Forum

Past event / The theme of this year's annual SEI Science Forum is environmental governance and diplomacy in the post-globalization era.