Part Four / What We’ve Done About It

4.3 The Truth about Government Climate Targets

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  1. that’s the number always referred to in policy debates and official statistics https://www.naturvardsverket.se/om-oss/aktuellt/nyheter-och-pressmeddelanden/sveriges-klimatutslapp-okade-med-fyra-procent-under-2021/.

    when you add in emissions from consumption
    https://web.archive.org/web/20210416194222/, https://naturvardsverket.se/Sa-mar-miljon/Statistik-A-O/Vaxthusgaser-konsumtionsbaserade-utslapp-Sverige-och-andra-lander/.

    and the burning of biomass
    https://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/sv/ssd/START__MI__MI0107/TotaltUtslappN/.

    Sweden would need double-digit percentage emissions cuts each year to be even close to doing its fair share of the transition
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2020.1728209.

  2. The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency’s evaluation Naturvårdsverket, ‘Underlag till regeringens klimatpolitiska handlingsplan’, https://www.naturvardsverket.se/om-oss/publikationer/6800/underlag-till-regeringens-klimatpolitiska-handlingsplan/.

  3. the article’s publication in the summer
    https://www.dn.se/sverige/sverige-ska-ga-fore-anda-ar-klimatmalen-langt-ifran-tillrackliga/.

  4. ‘If we are wrongly calculating the emissions today’ Mooney, C., et al., ‘Countries’ climate pledges built on flawed data, Post investigation finds’, Washington Post, 7 November 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/greenhouse-gas-emissions-pledges-data/.