Utmaningar och möjligheter: kommunernas arbete med hållbar konsumtion

This report by the Stockholm Environment Institute presents results from a 2018 survey of 119 Swedish municipalities regarding their efforts to promote sustainable consumption. It highlights a significant gap between internal municipal sustainability efforts and efforts to influence households and businesses, while emphasizing the urgent need for stronger political support at the local level.

• A survey of 119 Swedish municipalities indicates that while a majority work on sustainable consumption within their own operations, only approximately 30 percent work to promote sustainable consumption among households, and an even smaller proportion target businesses and organizations.
• There is a strong demand for increased political commitment at the local level; 79 percent of the responding municipalities' officials identified political support as their greatest need to advance sustainable consumption work.
• The report recommends that municipalities implement systematic monitoring and analysis of all purchases and investments to calculate total environmental and climate impacts. Additionally, it suggests the government should consider tasking county administrative boards (länsstyrelsen) to coordinate and support municipal efforts and act as a link between national and local levels.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2019). Utmaningar och möjligheter: kommunernas arbete med hållbar konsumtion. https://www.sei.org/publications/utmaningar-mojligheter-kommunernas-arbete-hallbar-konsumtion/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Utmaningar och möjligheter: kommunernas arbete med hållbar konsumtion. 2019. https://www.sei.org/publications/utmaningar-mojligheter-kommunernas-arbete-hallbar-konsumtion/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2019utmaningar, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Utmaningar och möjligheter: kommunernas arbete med hållbar konsumtion}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2019}, month = dec, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/utmaningar-mojligheter-kommunernas-arbete-hallbar-konsumtion/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }