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Sweden’s Clean Energy Policy: A Global Leader For the Green Transition

INTRODUCTION In 1991, a Nordic country, Sweden, introduced carbon pricing (Andersson, 2019), to encourage renewable energy use. The policy, which aligned with the Paris Agreement objectives, was designed to create cleaner energy supply and use technologies. This resulted in wind and biofuel investment subsidies, international environmental taxation, and tax reform (Cruciani, 2016). Sweden has steadily […]