The Swedish Sustainable Economy Foundation

For governments and authorities to serve citizens well, we believe they need access to a broad spectrum of reliable sources of advice. This is especially true when crafting policy at a systemic level. The Swedish Sustainable Economy Foundation has been in operation since 1995 to offer alternative, sustainable views of economic policy. Our own experts [...]

Taking the Island of Gotland as a Sweden in miniature, and starting from recent studies that inventoried relevant Eco-technology commercially available, as well as studies on flexible fee mechanisms, the project will, using a multi-disciplinary approach,  develop and test the feasibility of putting tariffs and dividends in place to stimulate the entire supply chain, including [...]

Yesterday the Swedish Sustainable Economy Foundation made its first public presentation of the controversial idea of raising fees on pollutants like fossil fuels until pollution becomes too expensive. Controversial too, because they want to pay all of it back to citizens. They even suggest raising fees on properties that are ecologically immature and release nutrients [...]

Externalisation – harmful emissions from commercial and civil activities – represents a negative side of the way business is carried out today.  Economic growth on one side brings profits to business owners while externalisation on the other flips the costs of emissions over onto citizens, who via taxes must bear the cost of environmental clean-up. [...]

In this new book, Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth—an economy where the goal is enough, not more. We’re overusing the earth’s finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. They explore specific strategies to [...]

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Externalisation – harmful emissions from commercial and civil activities – represents a negative side of the way business is carried out today.  Economic growth on one side brings profits to business owners while externalisation on the other flips the costs of emissions over onto citizens, who via taxes must bear the cost of environmental clean-up. [...]

Sustainable Economic Growth with pollution fees from Stephen Hinton This presentation is a longer version of the one prepared for a presentation at the Swedish Agency of Economic Growth. A new economic paradigm from Stephen Hinton Below is the presentation from Anders Höglund, the originator of the concept of flexible emission fees. Anders introduced the [...]

Sustainable Economic Growth with pollution fees from Stephen Hinton This presentation is a longer version of the one prepared for a presentation at the Swedish Agency of Economic Growth.

STOCKHOLM APRIL 7th.  Last month, the foundation together with a consortium of scientists and sustainability practitioners, including The Natural Step and The  Stockholm Environmental Institute, submitted  a project proposal to study Gotland as a Sweden in miniature, as a place to create the circular economy, emission-fee island. The work is based upon the foundation’s innovative flexible fee mechanism and work [...]

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