Sverige gick i spetsen för att reformera EU:s system för handel med utsläppsrätter förra året. Förändringen innebär en mycket stor klimatnytta eftersom utsläppsrätter framöver kommer att annulleras när utsläppen minskar mer än tänkt. Nu bör Sverige inkludera utsläppen från den "handlande sektorn" i vår nationella klimatpolitik och våra klimatmål. Då kan utsläppen minska snabbare, skriver Lars Zetterberg, IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet och programchef för Mistra Carbon Exit, och Jessica Henryson, Westander i en debattartikel i Svenska Dagbladet.

Last week marked the start of focus group interviews that contribute to Mistra Carbon Exit Work Package 3. Feeding particularly into the project Focus groups on Swedish leadership, niche markets and low carbon business models, the group interviews aim to examine how sustainable societies and climate leadership are made sense of by key actors. More precisely the focus is to elaborate how different actors, including Swedish industry representatives, and representatives of Swedish environment politics and administration, perceive efforts towards achieving Sweden’s target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045.

Uppsala Municipality, one of Mistra Carbon Exits partners, mainly working in the local arenas case study, has been awarded this year's Global Climate City in WWF's urban challenge One Planet City Challenge.

The jury's motivation states, among other things, that "Uppsala has ambitious, innovative and scientifically set goals, for example renewable energy and sustainable mobility. Investments in transport infrastructure were especially appreciated by the jury. Although Uppsala is a small city, the jury believes it serves as a global model."

In September Frances Sprei, Chalmers and Mistra Carbon Exit and Daniel Johansson, Chalmers and leader of Mistra Carbon Exit case study on transport, were invited to the Swedish Climate Policy Council to present their research.

 - The presentation focused on what part autonomous vehicles can play for the development of the Swedish transport system, focusing on passenger transport and related impacts on the sector's energy use and CO2 emissions, says Daniel Johansson.

The roadmaps for fossil free competitiveness describe how each sector can increase their competitiveness by phasing out fossil fuels. Several representatives from Mistra Carbon Exit have been involved in the development of roadmaps for the Concrete industry and the Construction industry. A summary of the first nine roadmaps that have been presented to the Government is now available in English.

Sweden played a very important role in reforming the EU's trading system so that the emission gap will decrease by 2.4 billion tonnes. It is almost 50 times more than the annual Swedish emissions of greenhouse gases. Sweden should now proceed with two important proposals for further emission reductions, writes MIstra Carbon Exit researcher and Program director Lars Zetterberg, IVL.