New ranking: Best in Sweden at climate change adaptation
Norrköping is this year's best climate change adaptation municipality, according to the latest survey from IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute and Insurance Sweden. The results also show that the rate of increase previously seen in climate change adaptation seems to have stopped.
– Over all the years we have carried out this survey, Norrköping has been one of the top municipalities. They are number one in Sweden this year because they have prioritized the issue politically and steered towards long-term common climate goals, says Staffan Moberg at Insurance Sweden.
Second in the ranking after Norrköping is Boden, followed by Lomma, Kristianstad and Gävle. A common feature of the leading municipalities is that they have made a political decision to work on climate change adaptation, and have allocated resources for this work.
There is a big difference in how much progress the municipalities have made with climate change adaptation. The scores range from 0 to 33, which is the highest possible score. More than half of the 194 municipalities that responded to the survey did not reach half of the top score. 53 municipalities scored less than ten points, which shows that they have barely begun the work.
