The national environmental quality objectives

The Riksdag has decided that Sweden’s environmental work is to set out from 16 national environmental quality objectives. A number of agencies are entrusted by the Government with responsibility for these objectives, with the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency to act in a coordinating role.

Fifteen national environmental objectives were adopted by the Riksdag in 1999, and the 16th six years later. They define the necessary characteristics (qualities) of our natural environment and our cultural heritage environment in order to ensure environmentally sustainable development. Since then, Sweden’s environmental work has been based on these sixteen environmental quality objectives.

The 16 environmental quality objectives