A LIFE CYCLE BASED CLIMATE INDICATOR IN SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Last modified: 2014-09-11
Abstract
The Swedish parliament has decided that Swedish environmental policy
must not lead to increasing environmental and health problems outside of
Sweden. By monitoring GHG emissions from consumption, policy-makers
and businesses get a better basis for developing and implementing
environment and climate policy instruments and measures that actually lead
to a reduction on a global level. In order to follow GHG emissions in
Sweden and in other countries, caused by Swedish consumption over time, a
national consumption based climate indicator has been developed (Swedish
EPA, 2013) and applied in the latest in-depth assessment of the Swedish
environmental quality objectives. The indicator shows considerable
increased emissions during the period 2000 to 2008, at the same time as the
national emissions have decreased.
must not lead to increasing environmental and health problems outside of
Sweden. By monitoring GHG emissions from consumption, policy-makers
and businesses get a better basis for developing and implementing
environment and climate policy instruments and measures that actually lead
to a reduction on a global level. In order to follow GHG emissions in
Sweden and in other countries, caused by Swedish consumption over time, a
national consumption based climate indicator has been developed (Swedish
EPA, 2013) and applied in the latest in-depth assessment of the Swedish
environmental quality objectives. The indicator shows considerable
increased emissions during the period 2000 to 2008, at the same time as the
national emissions have decreased.
Keywords
Consumption-based indicator, climate indicator, greenhouse gas emissions, environment policy
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Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (2013). Consumption-based indicators in Swedish environmental
policy. Report 6508.
Wijkman, A., Rockström, J. (2012). Bankrupting nature - Denying our planetary
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