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Sweden backs 17 cleaner transport projects with SEK 73 million

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Sweden backs 17 cleaner transport projects with SEK 73 million

Essential Climate crisis

From hugging Åkesson to borrowing his climate excuse

MP wants SEK 6bn restored for greener city travel

Social Democrats pledge free youth travel in jobs-and-climate plan

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Two Swedish cement plants underreported 348,000 tonnes of CO2

Sweden lets Laver copper mine advance despite environmental appeals

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48% of Swedes less likely to summer in Europe because of heat

Sweden wants ‘forever chemicals’ out of clothes, but farms can keep spraying them

Daniel Helldén and Amanda Lind: A Green Revolution

Centre MEP gets role in EU carbon-market negotiations

Sweden vows to fight weaker EU carbon market

Top court rejects Climate Act challenge to major road project

Tanum Moderate criticises government's Vidar wind approval

Sweden proposes environmental penalties up to SEK 5 million

PFAS pesticide review opens new divide between S and SD

Social Democrats propose climate-preparedness package

Government approves three wind farms but rejects 11 offshore projects

Sweden removes coastal bans on potential nuclear sites

Sweden adds hedgehogs and eels to protected-species list

Sweden proposes landscape-scale measures to restore threatened habitats

Sweden funds new projects to cut Baltic Sea nutrient pollution

Sweden extends support for scrapping old boats and two-stroke engines