Environmental Protection Agency (Sweden)

Naturvårdsverket's coat of arms.

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[edit]

The following is a summary of Sweden's Sixteen Environmental Quality Objectives (verbatim from the Agency's own website, July, 2008.):[2]

Nature photographer of the year[edit]

Each year, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency names a Swedish photographer "Nature Photographer of the Year".

  • 1990 — Tore Hagman
  • 1991 — Per Klaesson
  • 1992 — Ingmar Holmåsen
  • 1993 — Sven Gillsäter
  • 1994 — Gerry Johansson
  • 1995 — Bertil Pettersson
  • 1996 — Claes Grundsten
  • 1997 — Jan-Peter Lahall
  • 1998 — Peter Gerdehag
  • 1999 — Hans Strand
  • 2000 — no one selected
  • 2001 — Staffan Widstrand
  • 2002 — Inge Lennmark
  • 2003 — Jan Töve
  • 2004 — Lars Bygdemark
  • 2005 — Brutus Östling
  • 2006 — Helene Schmitz
  • 2007 — Lennart Nilsson
  • 2008 — Mireille de la Lez
  • 2009 — Serkan Günes
  • 2010 — no one selected
  • 2011 — Jan Grahn
  • 2012 — Johan Hallmén
  • 2013 — Jonna och Tammy Bergström
  • 2014 — Göran Ekström
  • 2015 — Erik Johansson
  • 2016 — Mats Andersson
  • 2017 — Roine Magnusson
  • 2018 — Johan Hammar
  • 2019 — Peter Hanneberg
  • 2020 — Jörgen Wiklund

References[edit]

  1. ^ Gullberg, Ingvar E. (1977). Svensk-engelsk fackordbok för näringsliv, förvaltning, undervisning och forskning [A Swedish-English dictionary of technical terms used in business, industry, administration, education and research] (in Swedish) (2nd ed.). Stockholm: Norstedt. p. 1613. ISBN 91-1-775052-0. SELIBR 8345587.
  2. ^ Sweden's national environmental objectives Archived 2012-02-15 at the Wayback Machine, from Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Archived 2007-12-23 at the Wayback Machine

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