Land use rules getting hindering climate adaptation efforts in Swedish municipalities
- In many municipalities work is continuing with climate change adaptation, aimed at ensuring they can handle extreme weather events like heavy rain downpours better.
- But municipalities are not allowed to put climate adaptation measures in place on another municipality or landowners land, and that’s creating problems.
- Therése Sjöberg an investigator in climate adaptation at the Swedish Weather Agency, says this becomes an issue when a measure is needed in an area that stretches over several municipal boundaries or includes land owned by someone else.
Radio Sweden
For more on the challenges of climate planning over several municipalities, listen to Radio Sweden’s full report.
Related stories from around the North:
Canada: How the North is doing when it comes to Canada’s climate targets, CBC News
Finland: Can climate adaptation be culturally sustainable in the Arctic?, Eye on the Arctic
Russia: Russian climate report stresses adaptation but no reduction in fossil fuel extraction, The Independent Barents Observer
Sweden: 2018 drought took toll on Swedish farmers’ mental and fiscal health, research says, Radio Sweden
United States: Bering Sea region focus of recent papers on climate risk to northern communities, Eye on the Arctic
