Greening Recovery

This research paper analyzes the role of ideas in the 2020 Swedish public debate regarding a green economic recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the challenges of achieving policy coherence for the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals.

• The authors identify that proposals for a green transition supported by economic recovery spending utilize a synergistic frame that integrates economic, environmental, and social policy options, which creates a potential for policy coherence.
• Despite the potential for coherence, the Swedish recovery debate was limited by a lack of analysis regarding power dynamics—specifically who benefits from certain policies—and a perceived temporal hierarchy of policy priorities, both of which may hinder sustainability transformations.
• Even in countries considered 'front-runners' in climate and sustainability efforts, such as Sweden, political efforts to achieve policy coherence are often undermined by goal conflicts and trade-offs.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2023). Greening Recovery. https://www.sei.org/publications/greening-recovery/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Greening Recovery. 2023. https://www.sei.org/publications/greening-recovery/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Stockholm Environment Institute |title=Greening Recovery |date=16 February 2023 |url=https://www.sei.org/publications/greening-recovery/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2023greening, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Greening Recovery}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2023}, month = feb, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/greening-recovery/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }