Our low air pollution is due to our low population density, high public transit usage (up to 60% in the major cities), and extremely strict car pollution standards. We still have some neighborhoods where air pollution is at an unsafe level and as a result we just recently banned combustion vehicles in those neighborhoods. Electric cars only in downtown Stockholm.

Our high air quality is because we’ve been so strict on cars, not in spite of it. And still, cars are a serious contributor to climate change even here.