Swedish municipalities have large potential to advance sustainable consumption
This policy brief aims to get an in-depth understanding of how Swedish municipalities are currently managing sustainable consumption, the challenges they face and what opportunities currently exist for them to further advance their work. The brief is based on the final results of the project, described in detail in the UNLOCK final report.
Sustainable consumption has a strong momentum within Swedish municipalities, where several policies and initiatives are underway which attend to this issue. Swedish municipalities working actively with sustainable consumption show the breadth of actions that can already be taken.
But despite often being described as a country with a strong environmental performance record, Sweden has not yet managed to substantially reduce the harmful environmental impacts associated with consumption. Swedish consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions are still at a high level, even though they have decreased somewhat in recent years.
With greater opportunities for collaboration, pooling of resources, and sharing of tools their impacts can be amplified. Further government actions at all levels will be necessary to shape discourses and norms, and to provide the incentives and infrastructure for sustainable consumption.
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