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  • 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.

  • Environmental tax revenues increase in 2024

    In 2024, environmental tax revenue amounts to SEK 102 billion, representing a 4 percent increase (without adjusting for inflation) compared with the previous year. The largest increase of tax revenues comes from energy taxes which increases by 3.5 SEK billion.

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from the Swedish economy increased in 2024

    Greenhouse gas emissions from the Swedish economy increased in 2024 by 6.3 percent compared to the previous year. The largest increases were seen in the transport sector and from household consumption. The rise in emissions follows the same trend as previously published quarterly statistics for 2024.