launch of the assessment and recommendations

“Sweden is a frontrunner in using market instruments like green taxes to discourage environmentally harmful activities and foster new technologies. But the better one does, the harder it is to improve. Sweden will need more cost-effective policies and a fairer sharing of compliance costs to meet future goals.”

Simon Upton, OECD Director of the Environment

Launch of the Assessment and recommendations of the Environmental Performance Review of Sweden, 11 June 2014, Stockholm

Read the OECD press release
Read the press and Twitter review on Storify

Data visualisation

Hover your mouse over the dots to read the names of the countries and how CO₂ emissions followed or not their GDP growth.
Sweden is the red dot. 

Click on the buttons to change the dates and see the evolution of Sweden's protected areas. 

contact

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Communications: Clara Tomasini

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Photo : Derek Yu/Flickr, Creative Commons attribution licence. Istockphoto.com/x3viar, Funkform.

Icons : Rural by Evan Caughey, Water by Alessandro Suraci, Tree by Tim Boelaars, Mountain by Benni, Lake by Pieter J. Smits, Forest by Juan Pablo Bravo, Tree by Lance Hancock, all from The Noun Project