SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES COUNCIL
Press release, 31 May 2010

Consumption puts significant pressure on the environment in other countries 

The negative pressures on the environment and human health resulting from consumption in Sweden need to be reduced, both inside and outside the country’s borders. That is one of the points raised by the Environmental Objectives Council in its latest report to the Swedish Government, de Facto 2010.

• Read the press release on the website of the Environmental Objectives Council.
• The full report of the Environmental Objectives Council (in Swedish): Miljömålen – svensk konsumtion och global miljöpåverkan, de Facto 2010 (ISBN 978-91-620-1280-9) can be found on the Environmental Protection Agency’s website.

English summaries of parts of the report – the Council’s overall assessment, its thematic study of Swedish consumption and environmental pressures in other countries, and assessments of progress towards the individual objectives – will be available at the end of June on the Environmental Objectives Portal.