Climate neutral Nacka 2030

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2025

• This fall, Nacka is inviting residents aged 16 and up to take part in a sustainability challenge via the Deedsterapp —a fun and educational climate journey on your mobile phone. By performing so-called Deeds (small, concrete actions), participants can reduce their climate impact, learn more about sustainability, and be inspired to adopt new habits. We are making the transition together: the municipality, residents, entrepreneurs, and civil society!
• Energy box with various types of meters can be borrowed from libraries for energy and climate advice: Residents of Nacka can now borrow an Energy Box from any library in Nacka. The box contains equipment that helps identify energy wasters in your home, association, or business. Borrowing the Energy Box is free of charge—all you need is a library card.
• In collaboration between climate, environment, and digitalization, we use Power BI to make available the results of our environmental expenditure analysis, which shows the climate impact of our purchases. The aim is to make it clearer to businesses how the municipality's emissions are distributed and, in the long term, to be able to compare and follow developments over time. The goal is to be able to adjust business practices and purchasing patterns in order to achieve the greatest effect in reducing emissions.
• Nacka Municipality is investing in fossil-free construction sites along Värmdövägen, including at Kyrkstigen and Sickla Industriväg. All machinery and transport there runs on HVO100 – a renewable fuel that significantly reduces climate impact compared to fossil diesel. Over the coming year, this method is expected to save around 215 tons of carbon dioxide – equivalent to approximately 39 laps around the earth in a petrol-powered car. In collaboration with Skanska, Nacka is demonstrating that fossil-free alternatives work in practice and that sustainable construction is not only possible but also effective.
• Pike factories and playful elves – Nacka's wetland package offer many benefits! The wetland package is a joint effort by Nacka Municipality to recreate, restore, and establish new wetlands. Historically, wetlands have been drained and reclaimed for various purposes, such as construction, forestry, and agriculture. By restoring, rehabilitating, and creating new wetlands, these contribute to increased water levels in the landscape, carbon storage, recreational values, and strengthened and increased biodiversity.
• Nacka's ongoing projects Outdoor Environment Improvement aims to improve the outdoor environment in Nacka's schools and preschools. The playgrounds are being surveyed and deficiencies identified, and efforts are being made to inspire play, learning, and physical activity. At the same time, measures are being taken to increase greenery and biodiversity in the playgrounds, phase out hazardous substances, manage stormwater, and plant heat islands. The work creates many multiple benefits and is based on good cooperation between several activities in the municipality.
• Sustainable Challenge is the name of Nacka Municipality's innovation competition, which is held every two years. The competition is aimed at pupils in Nacka's municipal primary schools and is an excellent opportunity to work with entrepreneurship, sustainable development, and creativity. The invention/idea should contribute to sustainable social development, be innovative, unique in its kind, and feasible to implement. Follow the link for instructions on how the competition works and what criteria the jury uses.
• The Climate Boxreducesfood waste! Nacka's schools and preschools serve around 3 million meals per year. Unfortunately, not all of this food ends up in the stomachs of children and students; some is left over and cannot always be used. To save leftover food, we have introduced the "Climate Box," which allows students and staff to fill a lunch box they bring with them with leftover food after lunch. They pay the cost price of the food, and the payment is made to the school or preschool's Swish number.
• Nacka's reuse networkaimsto increase the conditions for reuse and circular economy through collaboration and knowledge exchange. The reuse network was started in June 2016 on the initiative of the waste group at Nacka Municipality. The purpose of the network is to increase the conditions in Nacka for reuse and circular economy, such as borrowing, renting, sharing, repairing, and upgrading, through collaboration and knowledge exchange. Through the exchange of experiences, inspiration, and joint efforts, we are laying the foundation for tomorrow's sustainable and circular society.
• Nacka's big climate relay In the fall of 2025, Nacka is inviting residents to take part in a climate relay race – a fun sustainability challenge in the Deedster app where Nacka residents can: 1) Learn more about sustainability and climate, 2) Try out climate-smart habits in everyday life through small concrete actions (known as Deeds), 3) See their own climate impact and how individual choices make a difference, and 4 )Contribute to collective change and inspire others to participate. The climate relay is part of the implementation of Nacka's climate and environmental program 2025–2040, in which the municipality has set ambitious goals to reduce climate impact and strengthen environmental work. To achieve these goals, the whole of Nacka must be involved – not just the municipality itself, but also residents and business. The background to this is that research shows that meaning, participation, and local anchoring are crucial for engagement in climate issues. People want to feel that their actions matter. That is why Nacka is using a positive and inclusive approach – a digital climate challenge that combines knowledge, community, and small everyday actions that benefit the climate.

2024

• Land allocation with climate profile: Nacka municipality has high climate and environmental ambitions and is gearing up its sustainability work further through its initiative to invite to a land allocation competition focusing on innovative solutions for minimized climate impact throughout the life cycle.
• Energy box with different types of meters can be borrowed from libraries for energy and climate advice: Nacka residents can now borrow an Energy Box from all libraries in Nacka. The box contains equipment that helps to find the home, association or company's energy thieves. Borrowing the Energy Box is free of charge - all you need is a library card.
• Recycling project with Beijer bygg - offers reuse market for private individuals: Nacka Water and Waste works in various ways to promote increased reuse and recycling of waste. Together with Beijer Byggmaterial, a pilot project is now underway to evaluate the possibilities for reusing building materials from the Östervik recycling center.