Seven steps: How to reduce your climate impact as an international resident

It's often especially difficult for those who live their lives across borders, but there are still ways in which we can all minimise our climate impact. Here are a few practical tips from The Local's readers.

‘We don’t have much time to waste’: How will climate change affect Sweden?

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How The Local’s countries are impacted as July records Earth’s hottest month EVER

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Record temperatures as heatwave hits Nordics

Swedish city Umeå has Europe’s cleanest air

‘This is the only way forward’: Step inside Sweden’s first second-hand Ikea store

Swedish-UK startup’s urban electric truck set to hit the road in 2021

The story behind a 1960s high-rise turned ‘passive house’ in Gothenburg

Swedish oil refinery makes U-turn on controversial expansion bid

Greta Thunberg donates million-euro prize to environmental groups

Greta Thunberg urges EU leaders to treat climate change as a crisis

Greta Thunberg teams up with BBC for new documentary series

What you need to know about Sweden’s new plastic bag tax

Greta Thunberg’s dad: How fighting for the climate changed my daughter

Greta Thunberg returns to the place where it all started

Sweden: Thunberg ‘looking for lift across Atlantic’ for Spanish climate summit

Thanks, but no thanks: Greta Thunberg turns down award

In Pictures: Tens of thousands strike for the climate in Sweden

Can your Swedish employer stop you from striking for the climate?

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg wins ‘alternative Nobel Prize’

‘How dare you?’ How Greta Thunberg started a global climate movement

Greta Thunberg receives Amnesty’s top human rights award

New York tells kids they may skip school and join Greta Thunberg in climate strike

Swedish researchers create world’s first paper battery

Malmö: Swimmers warned to stay out of water due to dangeous algae

Malmö to host groundbreaking textile recycling plant

Greta Thunberg’s reaction to prestigious Amnesty award

What Swedish towns have the highest CO2 emissions per head?

Electric planes ready for take-off? SAS starts researching hybrid aircraft

This map reveals Sweden’s cleanest swimming spots

Sweden’s greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing: new stats

Old diesel cars will soon be banned on this Stockholm street

Ikea to launch rental flat-packs, but how green is the Swedish furniture giant?

Sweden’s temperature is rising more than TWICE as fast as the global average

Swedish environmentalist Thunberg nominated for French freedom prize

Tens of thousands join Greta Thunberg’s global youth demo for climate

Thousands of climate strikes planned on Friday, inspired by Sweden’s Greta Thunberg

How Greta Thunberg’s school strike became a global climate movement

Startup founder hits back at ‘eco-profeteering’ criticism: ‘It’s not money which is driving me’

Swedish teen climate activist in Davos: ‘It’s time to get angry’

Worried about the environment? This Danish uni can make you part of the solution

Swedes’ meat consumption continues to decrease

Why Sweden’s waste imports may not be as eco-friendly as you think

Northern Swedish cities see the effects of climate change more than anywhere else in Europe

Why is 40,000 litres of popcorn being dumped in the Baltic Sea?

War on plastic leaves manufacturers clutching at straws

Helsingborg ranked Sweden’s most environmentally friendly municipality

How Sweden makes international students recycling converts

Swedes are recycling more than ever via their bottle deposit scheme

What’s the environmental impact of Sweden’s new electric road?

Stockholm air quality ‘best in 50 years’: report

That’s pant! The story behind Sweden’s bottle recycling scheme

Sweden gives green light for cities to ban old diesel cars

Meat consumption in Sweden drops by record amount

Opinion: Lessons from Sweden in sustainable business

Women consider environmental impact of shopping more than men: Swedish poll

Sales of green cars soar in Sweden

Swedish government pledges millions for green industry

Wanted in Sweden: Manure from hundreds of horses to heat homes

Want to save the planet? Have fewer children, Lund University researchers say

What you need to know about Sweden’s proposed new airline tax

Sweden gears up for tougher measures against plastic waste

Swedish Green Party leader: ‘Many seem to have given up’

Can a ‘bee friendly zone’ help save Stockholm’s pollinators?

Why a Swedish billionaire is giving away millions to help save the world

This Swedish company proved you can eat your old clothes

Swedish municipalities want to fine snus, cigarette butt litterers

Litter levels rising in many Swedish towns and cities: survey

Nine out of 10 Swedes would consider buying an electric car

Record numbers switch off to mark Earth Hour in Sweden

Swedish government wants new tax on airline tickets

Stockholm tied for world’s least polluted capital: WHO

Electric cars tested by police in Sweden

The Swedes have made a jacket out of beans, wood and nuts

Sweden presents new climate law and zero emissions goal

Stockholm registers air pollution ‘as bad as Beijing’

Why Ikea is buying a wind farm… in Canada

Most Swedes now want an environmentally friendly funeral

Has Sweden invented the road of the future? How the world’s first electric highway works

Green Sweden to get its first energy self-sufficient village

Four Swedish companies among world’s ‘most sustainable’

Sweden just broke its wind power record by half a million kWh

Sweden to ditch tax on solar energy in renewables push

Sweden’s consumption footprint ‘among the worst’

Swedes don’t care about taxes but do worry about crime: poll

‘Airbnb’ for electric cars launched in Sweden

Meat-free days soaring in Swedish schools

Sweden trials electrified highway for trucks

‘Swedes, ditch meat on the barbecue this summer’

Swedish energy giant sells German coal plants

Swedish King: ‘You don’t have to eat bloody steak every day’

Sweden’s Volvo calls for joint effort to boost green tech

Swedes: eating less beef is key to meeting climate targets

Swedish crematoria test for ‘greenest’ coffin

Sweden’s silent buses making a loud noise

‘Health can get a boost from climate policy’

Greenpeace barred from Vattenfall brown coal bid

Sweden pushes for seat at top table of power

Swedish capital goes car free for the first time

Researchers puzzled by declining fish health

‘We want to bring light into refugee lives’

Toilet water flows into ‘clean’ Swedish capital

Ending ecocide: ‘It’s your world, it’s your choice’

NFGL students participate in Global Divestment Day

Urban Swedes flock to beekeeping trend

‘Outstanding’ climate ranking for Sweden

Sweden must push harder for a green planet

From precursor to roadblock: Economic growth and climate change

Sweden sues ‘tardy’ European Commission

‘EU-US trade deal could hurt green policy’

Greenpeace activists block Swedish oil refinery to protest expansion

Pollution linked to ‘one in eight’ deaths in EU countries

Swedish illegal waste exports rife: customs

Nine easy New Year steps to a more ethical life in Sweden

Gothenburg kicks off green bond sale

Sweden most sustainable country in the world

Earth, Wind and Fire

Expected heatwave bugs water agency

Grubby Sweden

Environmental health flaws

Stockholm breathes deeply

Swedish wildlife hits the road

Earthquake shakes southern Sweden

Sweden’s environment minister the purest of them all

Nuclear out, wind in (no matter what the people say)

Stockholm cars to run on food waste

Climate researchers warn of Stockholm floods

Green concessions to get budget passed

Pollution linked to heart attacks

Nuclear power plant’s future in limbo

Oil slick spotted off Swedish coast

Blaze destroys chemical site in Gothenburg

Drinking water alarms in Stockholm and Norrland

Climate change on Antarctica conference agenda in Sweden

“Great expectations” for Swedish Antarctic conference

“Major breakthrough” at Swedish Antarctica conference

Biogas train to launch in Sweden

Greenpeace activists fined for forest action

High biogas prices “damage green car sales”

Glorious summer sunshine: the downside

“Let all cars convert to ethanol”

World worthies gather in Sweden to debate global issues

Swedish king says action needed on climate change

Baltic algae “could be beaten with oxygen”

Global water conference opens in Stockholm

EU storm bonanza for Sweden

Rwandan coffee cooperative wins Swedish environment prize

Four share Right Livelihood prize

Sweden “to break oil dependency by 2020”

Green cars on the rise

Coldest winter for ten years on its way

Banker gives fortune to save sea

Stockholm hosts ‘clean fuels’ conference

Damage fear as storm strengthens

Editorial: Congestion charge will solve nothing

Petrol sales down

All I want for Christmas is the right to pollute

Sweden’s environmental law is “useless” – prosecutors

Sweden on target for Kyoto commitment

Natural living comes naturally to Swedes

Sweden second in world environment league

Rail bosses freed in environment case

Volvo launches revolutionary engine

Swedish government backs wind power

Greepeace blockades Swedish GM soy supplier

Power station could get armed guard

Fivefold increase in sales of ‘green’ cars

Nordic pine forests – the new pollutants

High pollen count predicted

Cameras to root out lazy recyclers

Climate change ‘means flooding for west Sweden’

Birds halt Umeå rail line

Algae starts blooming in Baltic

Phophorous ‘could be banned from detergents’

Water shortages as Sweden swelters

‘Hottest July ever’ in southern Sweden

Swedes embrace green motoring

Large wind farm for Halland

Mercury leak fears over Baltic barrels

Greens snub eco-cars

Cancer cases linked to refinery

‘Action needed’ as ethanol sales fall

Sweden condemns Icelandic whale catch

Sweden ‘one of world’s worst polluters’

“Serious” climate threat to Sweden

Sweden has become warmer

Swedes join world climate protests

Reinfeldt: climate a top priority

The world must act to protect climate change victims

Climate top of Swedish king’s agenda

Swedes break green car record

Swedish scientists develop green sat-nav

Sweden ‘a climate change winner’

Reinfeldt expresses fears over Baltic pipeline

Sweden’s trees move north due to climate change

Throwing taxpayers’ money into the trash

Persson beats Gore to top green prize

Swedish emissions ‘no lower than in 1990’

Biologists concerned over skinny Baltic seals

Reinfeldt favours exhaust tax

Swedes hold European record for gas-guzzlers

Truck emissions increased by 35 percent

Tethys targets Gotland for oil

Climate fears turn travellers back to trains

Sweden invests in marine environment

Gothenburg to host world’s largest biofuels plant

“Green garbage tax not working”

Swedes climb aboard charter trains

Borg ponders fuel tax hike

Climate change worries Swedes

No climate agreement when Reinfeldt meets Bush

Car industry ignores environmental labelling rules in advertising

‘Stiffer penalties needed’ for litter droppers

Europe needs to clean up its act

‘Don’t reduce consumption’ to tackle climate change

More Swedish beaches fail quality test

New record for low-emission car sales

Cool summer means less Baltic algae

Greenpeace slams nuclear weapon waste export

Swedish drivers turn to ethanol

Increased meat consumption ‘harms environment’

Swedes: integration is not working

Building wind farms ‘must be made easier’

Reinfeldt calls for big countries to act on climate

Biofuels ‘divert water from food crops’

Triathlete resumes Baltic swim

Being a man ‘bad for the environment’

Centre Party calls for fuel tax rise

Swedish tycoon to be Gordon Brown’s green advisor

Sweden ups climate change spending

Sweden axes ethanol tax during Lula visit

Swedish state loses major pollution lawsuit

Alien intrusions threaten Sweden’s seas

Protesters demonstrate against A-bomb waste

Sweden ‘must act on climate’

‘Scrap Stockholm-Gothenburg flights’

Arlanda emission cap could impact growth

Swedish men are getting greener

‘Raise fuel tax to combat climate change’

Sweden ‘does most to protect climate’

Climate protesters demand action

Al Gore voices Bali concerns

The green Swedes who vow slash the world’s emissions

Swedes buy green – but still love Christmas consumption

Bali deal given cautious welcome in Sweden

Sweden ‘is beating Kyoto emissions targets’

Swedes fly long-haul for winter sun

King’s speech dwells on the positive

Youth lack interest in the environment

Volvo to buy used cars for 10,000 kronor

Green car sales soar 49 percent in Sweden

University conducts research into burping bovines

Gore accepts Swedish green prize

‘Polar bear’ activists invade airport

Gothenburg demo calls for release of ‘Sturup Seven’

Climate commission remains split

Gothenburg mulls congestion charge

Top Green in EU drop-out rethink

Committee sets climate sights high

Greenpeace fingers swipe supermarket fish

Swedish town returns junk mail to senders

Swedish cities set their own climate targets

Swedish town prides itself as environmental role model

Green Party policies fail to tackle emissions

EU’s upcoming troika make climate change pledge

Swedish-UK nuke power deal goes bust

Petrol prices to double by 2020

Green cars hit record highs

Brazilians angered by Swedish tycoon’s Amazon price tag

Sweden favours electric cars over ethanol

Ministers collide over trains

Men use more energy than women: study

Royals join forces on Arctic expedition

‘Change property tax to green building tax’

Low emission cars ‘should get tax breaks’

World Water Week opens in Stockholm

More funding for Sweden’s marine environments

Government to scrap green car rebate

Sweden plans for green spending spree

City of Gothenburg bans bottled water

US Ambassador to Sweden unveils clean tech top 50

Centre party calls for petrol car ban by 2025

Sweden ‘best at tackling global warming’

Crematorium to help heat Swedish town

‘Endangered fish’ on sale in Swedish shops

Record thickness for Sweden’s ozone layer

Swedish study finds sweaty jocks harm the environment

Activists buzz Vattenfall CEO with paint bombs

Breast milk less toxic: study

Holidaying Swedes fork out for the environment

Ministers meet in Sweden to spar over EU energy targets

Sweden calls for EU to act on climate change

Swedish coast threatened by shipwreck oil

‘High speed trains offer no environmental benefit’: report

Swedish hunters to target marauding raccoon dogs

EU to offer billions in climate aid to poor nations: Reinfeldt

Reinfeldt urges EU unity on climate change aid

Social Democrats slam Nord Stream approval

Swedes claim climate conscience: study

H&M under scrutiny for damaged clothes dump

Dangerous cargo slips off ship near Gotland

Swedish cars scrapped overseas

Stockholm airport mulls driver toll

Sweden’s latest hotel experience – up a tree

Government slammed on environment policy

Stockholm conference to examine threats to global water supplies

Environmental toxins threaten Swedish otters

Oil slick threatens Sweden’s west coast

Favourable weather aids oil slick clean up

Sweden slammed over EU oceans directive

Nobel winners urge UN action to save the planet

Resilience: Stockholm centre helps the world grow sustainably

Malmö pedals toward eco-friendliness

Sweden enforces new litter laws

Doggy bags – a good deed for the environment

Stockholm air dirtier than Los Angeles: WHO

Studded tyres blamed for poor Stockholm air

Quality wins over Stockholm’s foreign students

Marking the death of Sweden’s ‘TV oak’

Sweden and the US in joint climate venture

Swedish politicos ‘don’t buy climate change’

Illegal trash exports from Sweden put Africa at risk

Minister’s chopper landing scares kids

Swedes slow to cash in on electric car subsidy

Eco-car drivers set to pay Stockholm road tolls

Police block activists at disputed mining site

Forestry firm halts work at disputed mining site

Supreme Court to review disputed mining permit

King refuses to give teen activist WWF award

H&M to pay customers to recycle clothes

‘Anxiety drugs making Swedish fish go rogue’

Sweden chides Baltic states over environment record

Hundreds protest Sweden’s mining boom

Sweden lags in Baltic Sea protection efforts

Swedish government wants to ban plastic cups

Sweden the EU’s ‘climate leader’: report

Swedes insist EU prioritize environment

Sweden threatens to sue the EU over chemicals

EU sues Sweden over environmental ‘inaction’

Sweden trying to ‘trick’ EU on wolf hunt

Biofuel use shows large climate benefit: study

Reinfeldt pessimistic about 2009 climate treaty progress

Sweden protests over EU emission targets

Uncertainty over Swedish emission rights

Reinfeldt welcomes EU climate change unity

EU chemical rules “do not go far enough” – Swedish minister