SEDAN DET KLIMATPOLITISKA ramverket antogs av riksdagen i juni 2017 har Sverige strävat efter att bli ett fossilfritt välfärdsland. Målet är att Sverige inte ska ha några netto-utsläpp av växthusgaser år 2045 och därefter uppnå negativa utsläpp. För att nå detta mål har staten krokat arm med näringslivet och riktat fokus mot utsläppstunga sektorer så som energi, transport och basindustri. Samarbetet har präglats av en stor teknikoptimism. Genom gröna teknikskiften ska den svenska industrins konkurrenskraft stärkas, nya jobb skapas och klimatnytta exporteras till världen. I denna omställnings berättelse saknas medborgarnasröster, drömmar och visioner. Behöver svensk klimatpolitik bli mer inkluderande för att vinna folkligt stöd och vad innebär det i så fall i praktiken?

Purpose- This paper analyses Rwandan farmers’ perceptions of historical drivers of landscape vulnerability (past), current livelihood assets (present) and, existing or potential capacities (future) to increase resilience to drought. The specific focus is on linking experiences from the past and present with ideas for a drought-resilient future. It explores how farmers' perceptions of past droughts and future visioning can contribute to rural development policy and multi-level collaborations. 

Design/methodology/approach- The study was conducted in Bugesera, a drought-prone district in south-eastern Rwanda. Empirical data was collected through participatory observation, semi- structured interviews and focus groups. The analytical points of departure are based on sustainable landscapes and livelihood approaches, combining spatial and temporal perspectives on challenges and opportunities identified by farmers’ communities in addressing droughts. 

Findings- All respondents had a high awareness of the impacts of droughts. Perceived drivers of landscape change include historical climate events, such as droughts and floods, immigration and agricultural expansion which have led to demographic pressure on land, deforestation, and infringement on natural resources. Factors enhancing resilience capacities include access to diversified sources of livelihood, knowledge of appropriate irrigation techniques, and availability of safety nets and credits. Furthermore, farmers identified collaborative opportunities as important for resilience capacity, including peer learning, and sharing best practices through knowledge exchange and on-field training. In addition, farmers brought up the need for innovative institutions that can facilitate access to markets and enable collaboration between different agricultural sectors. 

Originality/value – This study analyses farmers’ perceptions of resilience capacities to droughts through a spatiotemporal lens of past droughts, present capital and future challenges by linking scales, knowledge and human-environment nexus. This paper contributes to the knowledge of climate adaptation in Rwanda and to discussions about smallholder farming in the literature on climate change adaptation. 

Official enviroment and climate aid has increased in recent decades (Brodén Gyberg & Fridahl 2025). This type of aid aims to address climate change, strengthen resilience, reduce vulnerabilities, and combat poverty. However, challenges such as donor fragmentation, lack of coordination, misalignment of objectives, and insufficient localization hinder its effectiveness (Janus et al 2015, Reckien et al 2023, Schipper et al 2020). In some cases, ODA can lead to maladaptation, exacerbating vulnerabilities rather than alleviating them. Although challenges exist, the use of integrated approaches can contribute to policy coherence, sustainability and effectivness, limiting adverse unintended consequences (Persson 2009, England et al 2018). Swedish aid authorities have integrated environment and climate, conflict, and gender into its aid operations for decades, an ambition that was sharpened in 2015. We present work in progress based on an analysis of Swedish climate adaptation aid in Eastern Africa, exploring the preconditions for governing complexity and fostering transfomative adaptation through the use of integrated approaches. We analyze how the ambitions for integrating cross-cutting issues are framed and legitimized in central policy documents and how aid practitioners navigate the opportunities and challenges with these ambitions. 

This paper focuses on the role of spatial imaginaries in Sweden’s transition to a fossil free society. Through focus groups and individual interviews in two Swedish communities, closely entangled with carbon intensive industries, we analyze the spatial imaginaries embedded in people’s stories about place and what they are doing to the local dynamics of the fossil free transition. Our findings show how othering, recognized as a forceful mechanism of spatial imaginaries, contributes to a starkly pronounced us-and-them dynamics in our case study locations where geographical divisions such as urban-rural, north-south and center-periphery shapes how the fossil free transition is understood and received. Our findings suggest that from a national policy perspective the greatest challenge ahead lies in “creating an us” in the face of transformation by designing policies that approach the transition to a fossil free society as a common concern met by collective effort. Moreover, our results confirm the vital importance of also treating industrial decarbonization as a process of place-making where communities and local citizens are at the very center of envisioning place-based desired futures.

The Swedish government's reform agenda for official development assistance (ODA) includes announcements of major changes in climate aid. The report discusses Sweden's climate aid profile in relation to global trends, evaluations and selected research. By directing a larger share of development aid to climate action, the reform agenda creates opportunities for Swedish influence on the international climate transition. At the same time, the new direction may jeopardize longstanding partnerships and diminish its position in climate diplomacy. One way forward is to build on established strengths and take the lead in the pursuit of transformative, catalytic and research-based climate aid.

In December 2019, the European Commission launched the European Green Deal (EGD) and hereby ramped up the climate ambitions of the European Union. Responding to a mounting sense of climate urgency, the European Commission proposed a comprehensive reform program to make the EU's economy climate neutral by 2050. In this paper, we trace the practical work undertaken to ensure that Europe's green transition is just and leaves no one behind. To that end, we turn to the Just Transition Platform, an online portal coordinated by the European Commission. By analysing the many guidelines, checklists, and event reports produced by this platform, we trace the problem objects towards which the EU's just transition efforts are directed, what practical techniques are deployed to act upon them in order to transform them, and ultimately, how they define what it means to be a modern and green European.

This chapter employs narrative analysis to examine how people who live in the shadow of carbon-intensive industries imagine a just transition to net-zero emissions. The analysis rests upon an interview study with local politicians, civil servants, union representatives, and citizen groups in the Swedish west-coast city of Lysekil, home to Scandinavia’s largest oil refinery. By mapping stories of climate (in)justice told in view of Sweden’s efforts to decarbonize, this chapter illustrates the cultural dimensions of carbon lock-ins and why some people resist transformative change. In the city of Lysekil, the refinery is not only an important source of local employment but also deeply entangled with community identity and sense of place. However, the chapter also points to the multiple interpretations of just transitions to climate neutrality and the power of narrative to open-up possibilities for decarbonized futures.

This article explores how discourses may influence the potential for success in mitigating climate change in Swedish municipalities. We identify dominant discourses in climate change mitigation policy in three Swedish municipalities using argumentative discourse analysis, based on policy documents and interviews as empirical material. Political leadership and adequate organizational preconditions are necessary for working with climate change mitigation in municipalities, but the role of discourse is also significant. Policy discourse constructs preconditions for certain scenarios while rendering others less likely. Previous studies have shown that the ecological modernization (EM) discourse tends to be dominant, something which this study confirms and investigates further. We find that the dominant discourse is strong EM, which largely considers it possible to decouple economic growth and environmental problems through renewable energy and technology. A focus on collaboration between stakeholders is central and a global climate justice perspective is present to some extent. Potential solutions that are not related to the market or technological innovation risk being rendered invisible when this discourse is dominant, but the inclusion of a diversity of actors and an increased focus on climate justice could potentially minimize this risk. Finally, emerging discourses around transformation and circular economy have potential to enable the forging of new paths. This depends, however, on how these concepts are framed and how they are used.

Regeringens reformagenda för svenskt utvecklingsbistånd innehåller aviseringar om stora förändringar i det svenska klimatbiståndet. Genom att en större andel av utvecklingsbiståndet ska riktas till klimatinsatser skapar reformagendan möjligheter för svenskt inflytande på klimatomställningen internationellt. Samtidigt riskerar den nya inriktningen att undergräva upparbetade relationer och sänka Sveriges höga anseende i internationell klimatdiplomati. En väg framåt är att bygga på etablerade styrkor och ta på sig ledartröjan i strävan efter ett transformativt, katalytiskt och forskningsbaserat klimatbistånd. I denna policy brief diskuterar vi Sveriges klimatbiståndsprofil i relation till globala trender, utvärderingar och forskning i urval. 

Key messages

• There is need for sustained extension activities to bridge the knowledge gap of camel diseases and good husbandry practices amongst Samburu camel keepers.

• Samburu County should consider external sourcing of vaccines for endemic diseases such as Haemorrhagic Septicaemia and camel pox that are causing significant economic losses.

• The department of Agriculture, Livestock Development, Veterinary Services and Fisheries should advocate for timely disbursement of funds and advocate for increased budget allocation to the livestock sector