Preface

The first PRINCE programme (Policy Relevant Indicators for Consumption and Environment) ran between 2014 and 2018 with the goal of exploring ways to improve and expand the set of consumption-based indicators to estimate the environmental pressures linked to Swedish consumption, both within Sweden and abroad. The PRINCE programme was finalised 2018 with a report: https://www.naturvardsverket.se/globalassets/media/publikationer-pdf/6800/978-91-620-6842-4.pdfMore information is available at the web site: https://www.prince-project.se/This current one-year project, known as PRINCE 2, is a so-called add-on to the PRINCE programme, to communicate the results further, especially the scientific articles produced, and reflect on how to further improve the measurement of impacts from consumption. The goals of PRINCE 2 have been to communicate the results and the PRINCE programme to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and other key stakeholders, to summarize the use of PRINCE results in policy and other areas, to further develop data and indicators in the areas of fisheries, tropical deforestation, biodiversity and chemicals with a view to establishing new indicators for measuring environmental pressures from Swedish consumption.The project was financed by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency’s (Naturvårdsverket) environmental fund (miljöforskningsanslaget) where the main aim is to finance research and produce knowledge for the benefit of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management.This report is written by Nils Brown from Statistics Sweden, Simon Croft Stockholm Environment Institute York, University of York, Elena Dawkins from Stockholm Environment Institute, Göran Finnveden from KTH, Jonathan Green from Stockholm Environment Institute York, University of York, Martin Persson from Chalmers University of Technology, Susanna Roth from Statistics Sweden, Chris West from Stockholm Environment Institute York, University of York, and Richard Wood from Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The authors are solely responsible for the content.The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, March 2022