If you're looking for a climate success story, you'll find it, of course, in Scandinavia. Sweden has cut 80% of its net emissions since 1990 – while growing its economy. How have they done it? And can this be a blueprint for other countries? #planeta #sweden #decarbonization We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. Follow Planet A on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dw_planeta?lang=en Credits: Reporter: Anne-Sophie Brändlin Video Editor: Neven Hillebrands Supervising Editor: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann / Kiyo Dörrer / Michael Trobridge Fact-Check: Kirsten Funck Thumbnail: Em Chabridon Special thanks to: Lars Zetterberg (Swedish Environmental Research Institute) and Gustav Ebenå (Swedish Energy Agency) for insightful background interviews. Read more: Sweden's climate goals: https://www.krisinformation.se/en/hazards-and-risks/climate-change/swedens-climate-goals#:~:text=By%202045%20at%20the%20latest,than%20they%20were%20in%201990 https://www.2030sekretariatet.se/in-english/ https://unfccc.int/news/sweden-plans-to-be-carbon-neutral-by-2045 Sweden's heating sector: https://www.energiforetagen.se/4901de/globalassets/dokument/fardplaner/roadmap-heating-sector-summary-dhc.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544217304140#:~:text=The%20first%20Swedish%20district%20heating,heating%20systems%20during%20the%201950s https://www.energimyndigheten.se/en/sustainability/households/heating-your-home/district-heating/ https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJBPA-02-2019-0020/full/html?skipTracking=true Sweden's carbon tax: https://www.government.se/government-policy/swedens-carbon-tax/swedens-carbon-tax/ https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/pol.20170144 Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:58 Cleaning up electricity 03:22 Fossil-free heat 05:42 Sweden's carbon tax 08:45 What's left? 11:08 Lessons learned