ABSTRACT

In municipal energy planning, climate change is a key concern. Additionally, a multitude of environmental impacts and associated objectives also need to be addressed. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) should increase environmental consideration in planning, including that of national environmental objectives. This paper investigates the SEA screening practice and its effect on the execution of SEA as well as the inclusion of national environmental objectives in Swedish energy and climate planning. The results show that due to low execution and quality of screening, SEA is seldom conducted. However, environmental objectives in which synergies and conflicts can occur in relation to the climate objective were more often included in policy documents when environmental assessment had been conducted, thus indicating that they are incorporated into the basis for planning and decision-making in those processes. If SEA can highlight local co-benefits through this approach, it can facilitate building local support for climate action.

摘要

在市政能源规划中，气候变化是关键问题。此外，还需要解决许多环境影响和相关目标。战略环境评估（SEA）应在规划中增加对环境的考虑，包括国家环境目标的考虑。本文研究了SEA筛选实践及其对SEA执行的影响，以及将国家环境目标纳入瑞典的能源和气候规划中。结果表明，由于执行率低和筛选质量差，很少进行SEA。但是，在进行环境评估时，与气候目标有关可能产生协同作用和冲突的环境目标通常被纳入政策文件，因此表明它们已被纳入这些流程的计划和决策基础。如果SEA可以通过这种方法强调当地的共同利益，则可以促进建立本地对气候行动的支持。