Why Sweden is light-years ahead on climate

If you're looking for a climate success story, you'll find it, of course, in Scandinavia. Sweden has cut 80% of its net emissions since 1990 – while growing its economy. How have they done it? And can this be a blueprint for other countries?

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We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Credits:
Reporter: Anne-Sophie Brändlin
Video Editor: Neven Hillebrands
Supervising Editor: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann / Kiyo Dörrer / Michael Trobridge
Fact-Check: Kirsten Funck
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Special thanks to: Lars Zetterberg (Swedish Environmental Research Institute) and Gustav Ebenå (Swedish Energy Agency) for insightful background interviews.

Read more:
Sweden's climate goals:
https://www.krisinformation.se/en/haz...

https://www.2030sekretariatet.se/in-e...

https://unfccc.int/news/sweden-plans-...

Sweden's heating sector:
https://www.energiforetagen.se/4901de...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.energimyndigheten.se/en/s...

https://www.emerald.com/insight/conte...

Sweden's carbon tax:
https://www.government.se/government-...

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/1...

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:58 Cleaning up electricity
03:22 Fossil-free heat
05:42 Sweden's carbon tax
08:45 What's left?
11:08 Lessons learned