2. Stockholm
• on Sweden’s south-central coast
• Capital of Sweden
• 820 000 residents
• Area: 209 km2 (including 21 km2
of water)
• Around 40% of the city’s land
consists of parks or recreational
areas and there are seven nature
reserves within city limits.
3. • spread across 14
islands
• Most tourist attractions
in Stockholm can be
reached on foot
• Can experience culture,
natural scenery and big-
city excitement all within
a single day.
6. Public transportation
• called Storstockholms Local traffic (SL), Stockholm Public Transport
• 90% of Stockholm residents live within 300 metres of public transport
with an hourly or more frequent service.
• During peak hours, 78% of all trips to the inner city are made by public
transport.
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9. Stockholm City Bikes
• Purchase a bike card
• 68% of all trips within the city centre are made on foot or by bicycle
• Stockholm is connected by over 760 km of bike lanes. There is also an
internet-based travel planner for bikers, covering both the inner city and
neighbouring municipalities
10. Congestion tax
• Since August 2007, Stockholm has levied a congestion tax on all Swedish-
registered vehicles driving in and out of the city centre on weekdays
between 6.30 am and 6.29 pm.
• The Swedish Transport Agency is in charge of the congestion tax.
• Toll stations are 100% automatic. Traffic is monitored on-camera and bills
are sent out to car owners electronically
13. Clean vehicles
• use ethanol or biogas fuelled, hybrid-electric or ultra-low emission
vehicles
• Since 1994, Stockholm has actively campaigned for clean vehicles to
be introduced on the market
14. • provide adequate infrastructure for fuelling them.
• make up an impressive 40% of sales.
15. Clean public transportation
• All rail services are operated with certified renewable electricity and all
city buses run on renewables.
• uses some 400 ethanol buses and a handful of ethanol-hybrid buses,
comprising the world’s largest ethanol fleet.
• In 2008, one-quarter of buses in the region ran on renewable energy,
a figure expected to reach 50% by 2011.
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17. Clean public transportation
• In the coming years, Stockholm foresees increasing the number of
buses fuelled by biogas from 129 in 2009 to 500.
• 50% of trucks and 40% of taxis consume biofuels or are hybrids.
22. TOTAL AREA of 209 squares km
Residents 820 000 residents
40% is green 10% is blue
“BUILDING THE CITY INWARDS”
23. ‘Building The City Inwards’
Replace BROWNFIELD AREAS vibrant URBAN CITY districts with apartments
and office buildings.(abandoned or underused)
All planning applications in Stockholm are based on life-
cycle cost analysis
24. STOCKHOLM PARK PROGRAM
More than 90% of the population lives
within 300 metres of a green area.
In total, Stockholm boasts as a green city which made of
approximately 30% of the city’s area. When nature reserves are taken
into account, this proportion rises to 40%.
25. ❙ 1 000 parks
❙ Seven nature reserves within city
boundaries (and more than 200 in the
surrounding area), 1 cultural reserve and
1 city national park
❙ 12 000 trees in the city centre
26. Branching out
The more developed, urban areas are spread out like fingers, interspersed
with protected green oases. To conserve biodiversity and ensure
accessibility for everyone, the authorities have extended legal protection to
eight areas of natural and cultural reserves under the Environmental Code.
27. Water makes up over 10% of Stockholm’s
surface area, and is part of the uniqueness
of the Stockholm brand. The major waters
are Lake Mälaren and Saltsjön Bay, but
there are also 12 small lakes.
Environmental Quality Norms And
Mandating Bathing-water Profiles.
The water is so clean you
can fish in the city centre “Stockholm attractions is best seen from the water”
28. WHAT ITS ALL FOR?
QUALITY OF LIFE
TOURISM
SUSTAINABLE
‘Healing The City’,
29. Vision 2030 involves all the city’s
administrative departments,
together with businesses,
educational establishments and
other partners. Bringing this
sustainable, green city of the future
into being is a strategic commitment
involving all policy-makers and
stakeholders. Everyone in Stockholm
will have a role to play in making it a
reality.
34. Sustainable waste-water treatment
• Waste water is treated in two plants
• The water is treated with advanced technology
• Biogas produced is used in public buses as well as private cars and
taxis
• The excess heat is recovered for domestic heating
35. Waste production and management
• Has well functioning integrated waste handling and disposal system.
• Innovation in transporting waste help in widespread waste
• Swedish legislation prohibits any organic waste from being sent to
landfill
40. Waste-to-energy
• Waste has turned into valuable resource
• It has century-old tradition of incineration and converting household
waste to energy.
• Principle of using household waste = no household waste ends up in
landfill
• More than 70% household have access to district heating
41. District heating and cooling
1. District heating
• Involved co-generation process where use larger plant to produce
electricity and heat where reduce the number of small, old boilers
• powered by renewable energy for example heat in waste water since
1990.
• It has also helped reduce emissions of sulphur dioxide and other
hazardous substances, thereby radically improving air quality.
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43. 2. district cooling
• Cold water from lakes and the sea provides for district cooling as
cooling effect from heat pumps that extract energy from seawater or
waste water.
• The use of district cooling reduces CO2 emissions by about 50 000
tonnes annually.
47. Waste prevention and reduction
• The most important challenges for the years ahead.
• The municipalities has been working hard to raise awareness among
citizens
• Strategic Waste Management Plan for 2008-2012 contains strategic
objectives and target.
• Target:
• 1- To treat 35% food waste from restaurant and groceries shop
• 2-10% of food waste from household- biologically