Sweden - Environment
As far as the environment of Sweden is concerned, there have been
marine pollution (Baltic Sea and North Sea); acid rain damage to soils and lakes; air pollution; inappropriate timber harvesting practices
. As for nvironment - international agreements, we have; Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Heavy Metals, Air Pollution-Multi-effect Protocol, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protection, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change-Paris Agreement, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping-London Convention, Marine Dumping-London Protocol, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 2006, Wetlands, Whaling.About the environment of Sweden
| Climate | We have temperate in south with cold, cloudy winters and cool, partly cloudy summers; subarctic in north |
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| Revenue from forest resources | 0.21% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Revenue from coal | 0% of GDP (2018 est.) |
| Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 4.377 million tons (2015 est.) |
| Total renewable water resources | 174 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Major rivers (by length in km) | |
| Total water withdrawal | |
| Municipal | 700 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Industrial | 1.27 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Agricultural | 100 million cubic meters (2020 est.) |
| Air pollutants | |
| Particulate matter emissions | 5.96 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
| Carbon dioxide emissions | 43.25 megatons (2016 est.) |
| Methane emissions | 4.42 megatons (2020 est.) |
| Land Use | |
| Agricultural land | 7.5% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 6.4% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 0% (2018 est.) |
| Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 1.1% (2018 est.) |
| Forest | 68.7% (2018 est.) |
| Other | 23.8% (2018 est.) |
| Urbanization | |
| Urban population | 88.7% of total population (2023) |
| Rate of urbanization | 0.89% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
| Major urban areas (Pop) | 1.700 million STOCKHOLM (capital) (2023). |
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