Best Policy Practices

Best Policy Practices
Climate Investment Programme (KLIMP)
Sweden
KLIMP is an ambitious programme that goes
beyond the Kyoto targets by using subsidies
as carrots to support local-level action.
In 2002 the Swedish Parliament resolved that Sweden must
reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases by four per cent
over the period from 2008 to 2012. This was done even
though the Kyoto Protocol and the European Union burdensharing
agreement actually permit Sweden to increase emissions
by four per cent. So far, emissions have been reduced
by two per cent since 1990. As one means of putting this
objective into practice, Sweden introduced the Climate Investment
Programme (KLIMP) in 2002.
The climate investment programme enables municipalities
and other local players to receive assistance for long-term
investments that reduce the greenhouse effect. Other aims
are to strengthen local climate work and cooperation between
various players and, further, to collect and disseminate information
on and experience of climate investments.
The Government provides support through a subsidy.
One condition for getting the subsidy is that part of the environmentally
funded costs for the measures are financed by
those responsible for a project. When the project is finalized, a
report has to be sent to the Swedish Environmental Protection
Agency, which will then decide on the subsidy amount.
From 2003 to the present, there have been 72 climate
investment programmes in 54 municipalities. The investments
were made in sectors with the largest impact on climate such
as transport and energy. The main focus has been on energy
production and distribution, transport and waste.
More information at
www.naturvardsverket.se/klimp
www.internat.naturvardsverket.se/investment
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