Climate change mitigation - Outlook 2020 (Sweden)

SOER 2010 Common environmental theme (Deprecated)

Topics: Climate change mitigation

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Outlook. Links to further national information on climate change.

Topic: Climate change

more info Organisation name Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Reporting country Sweden Organisation website Organisation website Contact link Contact link Last updated 23 Sep 2011 Content license CC By 2.5 Content provider

Published: 23 Oct 2010 Modified: 11 May 2020 Feed synced: 23 Sep 2011 original

Key message

Sweden’s commitment for the non-trading sectors is to reduce emissions by 17 % between 2005 and 2020.

d) What is the 2020 outlook (date flexible) for the topic in question and how will this affect possible impacts on the natural environment and human health/well-being?

In accordance with EU's climate and energy package, emissions from facilities that participate in the EU ETS (emissions trading scheme) should decline by 21 % between 2005 and 2020 for the entire EU. Sweden’s commitment for the non-trading sectors is to reduce emissions by 17 % between 2005 and 2020.

Further action is needed

In June 2009, the Swedish Parliament decided that the goal for Sweden in the year 2020 is that emissions for operations that are not included in the EU ETS will be at a level 40 % below emissions in the year 1990. This entails a reduction of about 20 million tonnes/year. The latest forecast indicates that with existing and planned measures, emissions are expected to decline by 11.5 million tonnes/year in 2020.

It is planned that climate investments in other countries will be made to reduce emissions by an additional 6.7 million tonnes/year in 2020. In order to achieve the objective of reducing emissions by 20 million tonnes by the year 2020, additional national measures to reduce emissions by 1.8 million tonnes/year should be carried out according to the forecast.