The goal of fossil-free business trips achieved
In 2017, the Kalmar county museum accepted Fossilfritt Sweden's transport challenge. The goal was not to use fossil-powered cars in the service by 2022 at the latest. Now that goal has been achieved.
- Sustainability issues are important to us. Therefore, I am very happy to be able to state that we have reached an important goal and contributed in a concrete way to making a fossil-free Sweden possible, says Örjan Molander, museum director at the Kalmar county museum.
Kalmar county museum's transport changeover
The Kalmar county museum has now reduced to nearly 100 percent fossil-free and has carried out the following over a ten-year period:
- replaced all fossil-fueled own vehicles with biogas or HVO
- took the initiative to and contributed to the development of the dEL car pool, which offers the opportunity for fossil-free travel both in the service and privately
- signed a new rental car agreement for fossil-free rental cars during temporary peaks
- adopted an environmental policy for business travel.
Challenges ahead
The goal of a fossil fuel-free operation has been achieved, but the museum wants more. The goal is for the entire supply chain to be fossil fuel-free.
- We must now stick to our own work and continue working actively to include all our suppliers in the transition to fossil-free transport, says Örjan Molander.
More information
About Fossil-free Sweden
Read more and see which other actors in Sweden have accepted the transport challenge at fossilfritt-sverige.se
About the dEL car pool
Read more about the dEL car pool as a good example of an environmentally conscious investment in the Swedish Transport Administration's report "Arena for a transport-efficient urban environment - good examples that provide increased climate benefits in the near term" at trafikverket.se (pdf, new window).