The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (
Swedish: Naturvårdsverket), formerly the National Swedish Environment Protection Board[1] (
Swedish: Statens naturvårdsverk) is a
government agency in Sweden responsible for proposing and implementing environmental policies. It was founded in 1967 and reports to the
Swedish Ministry of the Environment.
Environmental Quality Objectives
The following is a summary of Sweden's Sixteen Environmental Quality Objectives (verbatim from the Agency's own website, July, 2008.):[2]