Why Sweden is light-years ahead on climate

How does your country stack up against Sweden's progress?

Basically, there’s a sense of “we are in this together” altruism. Wish we could have the same attitude here in India

Science, education, democracy

While almost all of this information is factual, you are omitting or just missing some key points. As a Swede it’s always been incredibly clear to me, even from childhood, that we put in a lot of great work as a nation even before I was born, and throughout my life. The keys were that the government pushed for stuff that would just make it safer and cheaper to live here and business got behind it. All good and well. Today however we have had leadership, from most political parties, for a couple decades, that has been too scared to push for real change and is instead great at shuffling numbers. Most national experts show how we’ve failed miserably in rail (both passenger and cargo), forestry (monoculture, biodiversity loss, inflated carbon capture), and more. Plus we have huge companies that have production and other parts of their business outside of Sweden. That means the emissions can be huge and still not count as being Swedish. Our current government actually shut down the department of environment after like half a century. And many global and local environmental groups have shown very clearly how our current leadership are mostly purposely missing the target and failing to address crises, because private interests and economic growth comes first. We’re a nation that has done a lot well in this arena. But to highlight Sweden now, when we’re doing our worst job in decades, feels very strange to me as a Swede.

Canada could follow Sweden's example but won't. We have a powerful fossil fuel industry which has a stranglehold on our governments.

This proves that decarbonisation isn't a drain on the economy. Edit: I understand it's easier for rich countries to decarbonise, but the point is it didn't cost Sweden it's economic growth.

Swedish people has always been innovative and hard working👍🏻

I’ve been to Sweden lots of times, it’s an amazing place with high standards of life

So the learning point here is: start 50 years ago.

The biggest and most important decisions were made in the 70 and 80-tis. It's not like Sweden is on track with its goals today. It will miss the European 2030 goal for example while other countries in Europe will succeed.

Love the optimism. As an Australian though I did snort at their claim to be a country of great distances.

do basically a science-based long term policies from a government that cares about it's people and future generations (which is basically a lottery chance for any non-nordic countries)

Basically: less greedy and less corrupted government, when compared to most Europe..

Once again proving investing in advancements in energy and infrastructure is worth it and is always a net positive.

Wow almost as if investment in renewable energy results in cheaper electricity and is actually good for the economy.

0:45 Finland has a target of net zero emissions by 2035. That is 10 years before Sweden, so actually, Finland has a tougher target, especially as we have less hydropower. When it comes to electricity, Finland is already practically guaranteed to meet it with a combination of nuclear, wind, hydro, and biomass, with nuclear and wind being the big ones. When it comes to the rest of energy-related emissions, there is still work to do, and Finland has similar problems as Sweden, for example the cold climate and low population density makes it harder to make electric cars viable. Also, agriculture has barely cut its emissions over decades.

Meanwhile germany closed down 170TWh of nuclear instead of lignite 🤡🤡🤡

Nice video, here is some more big problems we have in sweden: 1. Only 9% of the 70% forest is actually protected. 2. They are voting against the passage of som really important EU-laws, like the nature-restoration-law. 3. We still emit 8 times more co2 than what the paris-agreement says we should. 4. Our big banks still invests their monney into co2-monsters. The financed emissions is about 76 million tons of co2 per year, which is more than everyone in sweden emits combined.

"Find where your main climate impact is": Actually Sweden forgot what it was, and thought nuclear power wasn't part of the equation.

Sweden embraced nuclear and waste-to-energy plants and they manage their forests in a way that produces lots of timber products and young replanted forest that suck up CO2. The US works hard to block these key components that worked for Sweden.