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  • Reduced aid lowers environmental motivated subsidies in 2025

    Environmentally motivated subsidies decreased in 2025 compared to 2024. In 2025, these subsidies amounted to SEK 20.7 billion, representing a 7.5 percent decrease from 2024. The GDP share of environmental subsidies also declined to 0.3 percent.

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from the Swedish economy decreased in 2025

    Greenhouse gas emissions from the Swedish economy amounted to 51.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents in 2025, according to preliminary statistics from Statistics Sweden. This corresponds to a decrease of 1.8 per cent compared with 2024. Over the same period, GDP at constant prices increased by 1.5 per cent, resulting in a reduction in emissions intensity of 3.2 per cent.

  • Environmental tax revenues decreased in 2025

    The environmental tax revenue amounted to 95 billion SEK, representing a 7 percent decrease compared with the previous year. The decrease was mainly driven by lower energy tax revenues.

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from the Swedish economy increased by 7 per cent in 2024

    Greenhouse gas emissions from the Swedish economy amounted to 52 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents in 2024, representing an increase of 7.2 per cent compared with the previous year. The rise in emissions is mainly attributable to higher use of fossil diesel, which has had a significant impact on the industry groups construction (SNI 41–43) and land transport (SNI 49). Over the same period, GDP increased by 1 per cent, resulting in a 6.2 per cent increase in greenhouse gas intensity in the economy in 2024.

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

    Greenhouse gas emissions from the Swedish economy amounted to 12.4 million tonnes in the third quarter of 2025, according to preliminary figures from Statistics Sweden. This represents a 2.0 per cent decrease compared with the same quarter in 2024. Over the same period, GDP at constant prices increased by 2.6 per cent, resulting in a 4.5 per cent reduction in emission intensity. From a longer-term perspective, greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 5.1 percent compared to the third quarter of 2023.