Växjö: Fossil Fuel Free City

The city is widely admired for the policy it adopted in 1996 of eliminating the use of fossil fuels by 2030.

This decision was taken in reaction to pollution and eutrophication in the lakes that surround the town.

Greenhouse gas emissions have already been cut by 41% since 1993 to 2011, and will be reduced by 55% by 2015.

And remarkably, this has not harmed the economy, which has grown meanwhile.