Areas of responsibility

• Climate policy

  The climate problem and ongoing climate change.

• Sustainable development

  Strategies for the sustainable development of society have become more important in Swedish policy in recent years.

• Environmental quality objectives

  The Swedish Government has formulated 16 Environmental Quality Objectives.

• Chemicals policy

  If chemicals are not handled safely, they risk damaging both human health and the environment.

• Ecocycle policy

  Ecologically sound waste management is an important component.

• Water and seas

  Many of Swedens coastal and sea areas are strongly affected by pollution, overfishing and physical exploitation. A new unified EU directive for water is intended make work to protect Europes water more effective.

• Nature conservation and biological diversity

  In the past decade biodiversity conservation has been given a prominent place in nature conservation work. Nature conservation interacts with other policy areas in various ways.

• Environmental legislation

  The fundamental rules of the Environmental Code apply, in principle, to all human activity that may harm the environment.

• EU and International co-operation

  To protect and improve the environment and thereby peoples quality of life, the countries of the world are working together within the UN, the EU and many other organisations.