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  • Greenhouse gas emissions from Sweden’s economy decreased in the second quarter of 2025

    Greenhouse gas emissions from the Swedish economy amounted to 12.6 million tonnes in the second quarter of 2025, according to preliminary statistics from Statistics Sweden. This represents a 2.1 percent decrease compared to the same quarter in 2024. During the same period, GDP at constant prices increased by 0.9%, resulting in a 3.0% reduction in emissions intensity. From a longer-term perspective, greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 3.7 percent compared to the second quarter of 2023.

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from Swedish consumption decreased in 2023

    Greenhouse gas emissions from Swedish consumption (which includes private consumption, public consumption, and gross investments) decreased by 9 percent in 2023 compared with 2022. Emissions embedded in products Sweden imports decreased by 13 percent at the same time that consumption-based emissions arising from Swedish production decreased by 3 percent.

  • Growth in the environmental sector slowed down in 2023

    The environmental goods and services sector accounted for 3.8 percent of Sweden’s total GDP in 2023, a small decrease from 2022. Both total production and the number of people employed in the environmental sector declined in 2023. The sector employed 160 000 people total, 21 percent of whom are women.

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from Sweden’s economy decreased in the first quarter of 2025, according to preliminary data from Statistics Sweden

    Preliminary estimates show that greenhouse gas emissions from the Swedish economy amounted to 12.6 million tonnes in the first quarter of 2025. This represents a 3.6 percent decrease compared to the same quarter in 2024. From a longer-term perspective, emissions are at roughly the same level as in the first quarter of 2022, but 2.9 percent higher than in the first quarter of 2023.

  • Environmentally motivated subsidies decreased in 2024

    Environmentally motivated subsidies decreased in 2024 compared to 2023. For 2024 these subsidies amounted to 20.9 billion SEK; an 18 percent decrease from 2023. Environmental subsidies as share of GDP decreased as well, to a share of 0.3 percent of GDP.