Posts Tagged ‘Sweden’

• Sweden’s largest wind farm gets its first approval

  Sweden has approved Universal Wind Offshore’s plans to construct Scandinavia’s largest offshore wind farm. The wind farm will be built in the Kattegatt strait about 30 kilometres off Sweden’s southwestern coast and cover an area of about 60 square kilometres. …

• Sweden upgrades its train fleet

  While the discussions about high-speed railway systems are many and the people who want them are even more in Sweden the political decisions that are needed still seems far away. Sweden who once was a leading railway country now seems …

• Swedish gas prices continues to climb to new record heights

  The major gas companies in Sweden have raised the price for gasoline to new record heights. One gallon of gasoline (4 litres) will now cost you $8,48 (around 52 Swedish Kronor).

• Scandic Hotels bans bottled water

  Scandic, the Nordic hotel company, have decided to ban water on bottle on all of their 141 hotels this year. Instead of bottled water their customers will be offered ordinary and carbonated water from water taps from the hotel. It …

• Sweden fails to agree on strong actions against climate change

  Today the Swedish parliamentary climate commission failed to set up tough emissions reduction goals to combat climate change. The Swedish climate commission was created to set up guidelines, emissions reduction goals and to create unanimity between all the major political …

• Swedish campaign against global warming deniers

  SLU, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, have started a rather massive campaign against global warming deniers. The message that: “without proper facts anyone can say anything” about climate change and its effects, will be advertised using the site http://ww.koldioxidensvänner.se …