What Fossilfritt Sverige does

Fossilfritt Sverige (Fossil Free Sweden) is a Swedish Government-commissioned coordination initiative, formally established as government committee M2016:05 and placed under the Ministry of Environment (Miljödepartementet) in 2015 ahead of the Paris climate conference. Headquartered at Mäster Samuelsgatan 56 in Stockholm with a staff of five led by National Coordinator Svante Axelsson, the initiative operates as a convening body between the Swedish business sector and political institutions. It does not develop proprietary technology products and has no commercial revenue model.

The organization's core offering consists of 23 industry-specific roadmaps for fossil-free competitiveness, developed collaboratively with business sectors covering over 70% of Sweden's territorial greenhouse gas emissions, supported by six horizontal strategies addressing cross-industry challenges (sustainable battery value chain, hydrogen, bioeconomy, finance, energy efficiency, and biogenic carbon capture). It runs four corporate and municipal challenge programs (Transport, Solar, Internal Travel Tax, Company Car) and convenes Sweden's largest annual climate transition conference, Fossilfri Konkurrenskraft, at Berns in Stockholm. Distribution is conducted through a publicly accessible website, LinkedIn, Bluesky, YouTube, email newsletter, and earned media including Dagens Industri.

The initiative is funded through Swedish Government appropriations rather than commercial revenue, and engages with 23 industries (steel, mining, cement, automotive, aviation, maritime, heating, petroleum and biofuel, recycling, forest, gas, electricity, construction, aggregates, agriculture, food retail, fast-moving consumer goods, digitalisation consultancy, ski resorts, and innovation/chemical industries), six Climate Leader municipalities (Helsingborg, Umeå, Uppsala, Växjö, Örebro, Östersund), and multiple regional networks. Notable industrial partners referenced in its strategies include HYBRIT (SSAB, LKAB, Vattenfall), H2 Green Steel, Northvolt, Stockholm Exergi, Cementa, and Scania/Volvo Group.

Name

Fossilfritt Sverige

Legal name

Fossilfritt Sverige

Website

https://fossilfrittsverige.se

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Fossilfritt Sverige is a Swedish Government-commissioned coordination initiative (committee M2016:05) that convenes 23 industries, municipalities, and regions around 23 fossil-free roadmaps and six horizontal strategies to accelerate Sweden's transition to a fossil-free welfare nation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Climate Policy Coordination

akta.pro primary industry

Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation (BPAGAGAF)

Keywords

• Climate policy coordination
• Industrial decarbonization roadmaps
• Fossil-free transition strategy
• Sustainability public procurement
• Green industry coordination

Headquarters

HQ city

Stockholm

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Government funding: Fossilfritt Sverige is a government committee (M2016:05) commissioned by the Swedish Government and sorted under the Ministry of Environment (Miljödepartementet). It is funded through government appropriations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Fossilfritt Sverige is a Swedish Government-commissioned coordination initiative (committee M2016:05) that convenes 23 industries, municipalities, regions, and organizations around the shared goal of making Sweden fossil free. It produces industry-specific roadmaps for fossil-free competitiveness, horizontal strategies (hydrogen, battery value chain, bioeconomy, finance, energy efficiency), and runs the annual Fossilfri Konkurrenskraft conference plus a Challenges Program. Outputs are published publicly and delivered at no cost to participants, with funding from government appropriations.

Product overview

Fossilfritt Sverige is a government-initiated coordination platform (not a traditional product company) that facilitates Sweden's transition to a fossil-free welfare nation. The core offering consists of 23 industry-specific roadmaps for fossil-free competitiveness developed collaboratively with business sectors, supported by horizontal strategies addressing common challenges (battery value chain, hydrogen, bioeconomy, finance, and energy efficiency). The initiative also runs annual conferences (Fossilfri Konkurrenskraft), publishes research reports and analyses, and coordinates challenge programs for organizations to undertake concrete climate actions. This is a coordination and policy facilitation platform rather than a software product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Roadmaps for Fossil-Free Competitiveness A collection of 23 industry-specific roadmaps developed by Swedish business sectors showing how each industry can achieve fossil-free or climate-neutral operations by 2045. Each roadmap contains commitments, political proposals, and identifies obstacles and solutions for the transition.
• Strategy for a Sustainable Battery Value Chain A national strategy developed to position Sweden in the global battery industry race, covering the entire value chain from mining and raw materials through manufacturing to recycling and applications in transport and energy systems.
• Hydrogen Strategy for Fossil-Free Competitiveness A strategy outlining how hydrogen will play an important role for Swedish industry in implementing the 22 industry roadmaps, with policy recommendations for handling common challenges and developing hydrogen clusters.
• Bio-Strategy for Fossil-Free Competitiveness A strategy addressing how bio-based feedstocks can replace fossil fuels in transport, construction materials, textiles, and chemicals, while managing increasing demand through electrification and efficiency improvements.
• Finance Strategy A strategy to ease financing of the major industrial transformations outlined in the roadmaps, including fossil-free steel, CCS technology, electrification, and finding finance solutions for small and medium-sized businesses.
• Energy Efficiency Strategy A strategy focused on how more efficient use of energy can contribute to realising the roadmaps for fossil-free competitiveness, identifying obstacles and analysing how digitalisation can develop energy efficient solutions.
• Fossilfri Konkurrenskraft Annual Conference Sweden's largest climate transition conference held annually, bringing together industry leaders, politicians, and stakeholders to follow up on the implementation of the 23 industry roadmaps, including roadmap follow-up presentations, panel discussions with industry leaders, and government reporting.
• Challenges Program Four challenges launched for corporations, municipalities, regions and organizations to undertake concrete climate action: the Transport Challenge, Solar Challenge, Internal Travel Tax Challenge, and Company Car Challenge.

Quantifiable outcome

• 23 industry roadmaps cover over 70% of Sweden's territorial greenhouse gas emissions
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

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Partnerships

16 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• HYBRIT (SSAB, LKAB, Vattenfall)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHYBRIT is a collaboration between SSAB, LKAB, and Vattenfall to develop fossil-free steel using hydrogen instead of coal. This is one of the flagship projects highlighted in Fossilfritt Sverige's hydrogen strategy. The pilot plant for producing sponge iron in Luleå started operation in 2020.
• NorthvoltcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNorthvolt is building one of Europe's largest battery factories in Skellefteå, with a focus on sustainability and battery recycling. The factory started production in 2021. A second factory is being built in Gothenburg in partnership with Volvo Cars.
• PreemcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPreem is converting its oil refinery in Lysekil to become Scandinavia's largest biofuel producer, planning to be climate neutral by 2035. Part of the petroleum and biofuel industry roadmap.
• Scania and Volvo GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBoth Scania and Volvo Group are investing in hydrogen-powered trucks for long-distance transport. They are also developing battery-electric trucks. Both are participants in the automotive industry roadmaps.
• OvakocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOvako is preparing the next demonstration step for steel heating using fossil-free hydrogen. The company has successfully electrified five furnaces.
• H2 Green SteelcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerH2 Green Steel is planning a new steelworks in Boden starting 2024, in collaboration with customers across multiple segments including automotive, commercial vehicle, white goods, furniture, and industrial equipment. First phase investment of SEK 25 billion.
• Stockholm ExergicoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStockholm Exergi is exploring large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) from a biofuel heat and power plant in Värtan. World-record largest agreement for permanent negative emissions signed with Microsoft. Full-scale goal: capture 800,000 tonnes of CO2 per year by 2025.
• Liquid WindcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLiquid Wind is developing electro methanol production facilities in partnership with Övik Energi. First commercial facility planned in Örnsköldsvik, producing 50,000 tonnes of methanol per year starting 2024.
• ProfucoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProfu is a research company that Fossilfritt Sverige partnered with to produce reports on waste heat potential and district heating risk analysis. Profu authored the 'Kartläggning av restvärmeflöden i Sverige' and the district heating risk analysis report.
• EIT InnoEnergycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEIT InnoEnergy co-developed the national strategy for a sustainable battery value chain with Fossilfritt Sverige and also developed the foundation of the European Battery Strategy for the European Commission.
• Climate Leader Cities (Helsingborg, Umeå, Uppsala, Växjö, Örebro, Östersund)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSix Swedish cities working with Fossilfritt Sverige in the 'Climate Leader Cities for Public Procurement' project to identify challenges and develop action plans for implementing effective climate requirements in public procurement.
• Peak InnovationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPeak Innovation leads the development of a digital platform for fossil-free transport infrastructure, funded by Tillväxtverket with SEK 11 million. The platform involves 10 regions including Kronoberg, Dalarna, Östergötland, Norrbotten, Västra Götaland, Skåne, Gotland, Örebro, Jämtland Härjedalen, and Kalmar.
• Rise Research Institutes of SwedencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRise is a key partner in Fossilfritt Sveriges energy efficiency strategy project, working together with Göteborg energi, Innovatum Science Park, Göteborgs stad, and Västra Götalandsregionen on reverse auctioning for energy efficiency.
• LKABcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLKAB is part of the HYBRIT initiative (with SSAB and Vattenfall) to produce fossil-free sponge iron. LKAB's transition aims to go from selling iron ore pellets to sponge iron produced with green hydrogen by 2045.
• SSABcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSSAB is part of the HYBRIT initiative. SSAB's transition aims to reduce approximately 10% of Sweden's total territorial emissions by converting to fossil-free steel production. Target: transform all operations in Sweden and Finland by 2030.
• Cementa (Heidelberg Cement Group)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCementa's facility in Slite aims to be the world's first climate-neutral cement plant by 2030, using CCS technology to capture 1.8 million tonnes of CO2 annually.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• The B Team: Coalition of global business leaders working to drive a better way of doing business for people and planet. Comparable as a leadership-led convening platform that aligns business action with sustainability outcomes.
• We Mean Business Coalition: Coalition of businesses and organizations mobilizing the private sector to take ambitious climate action. Comparable to Fossilfritt Sverige's role of aligning industry action and channeling aggregated business demands to policymakers.
• Climate Group: International coalition that convenes businesses, governments, and other organizations to accelerate climate action. Closely comparable to Fossilfritt Sverige's role of convening industry and government around shared climate roadmaps and commitments (e.g., RE100, EV100).
• CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project): Global disclosure system that enables companies, cities, states and regions to measure and manage their environmental impacts. Comparable to Fossilfritt Sverige's benchmarking and convening role for industry climate action.
• Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi): Convening initiative that defines and promotes science-based emissions reduction targets for companies. Comparable in being a coordination platform that translates climate ambition into standardized corporate commitments analogous to Fossilfritt Sverige's industry roadmaps.
• Climate Council Denmark (Klimarådet): Independent Danish Climate Council that advises government on climate policy. A near-direct national-level analog to Fossilfritt Sverige's role as a climate advisory body linking science, industry and government.

Broad incumbents

• RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute): Independent non-profit focused on transforming global energy systems to align with a 1.5°C future. Comparable as a climate think tank and convening organization working across industry, finance, and government on decarbonization pathways.
• Agora Energiewende: German think tank developing evidence-based climate and energy policy. Comparable as a research-driven policy convening organization, although it does not coordinate industry roadmaps of the same depth as Fossilfritt Sverige.
• Wuppertal Institut: German research institute for climate, energy, and resource strategies. Comparable as a sustainability research and policy institute supporting Germany's Energiewende, with a broader research remit than Fossilfritt Sverige's industry-coordination focus.

Regional players

• Nordic Council of Ministers: Official inter-parliamentary and inter-governmental body for Nordic cooperation. Comparable as a regional convening platform coordinating policy across Nordic governments and stakeholders, though broader in scope than Fossilfritt Sverige.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

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