Environmental Protection Agency (Sweden)

The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Swedish: Naturvårdsverket) is a government agency in Sweden responsible for proposing and implementing environmental policies. It was founded in 1967 and reports to the Swedish Ministry of the Environment.

The following is a summary of Sweden's Sixteen Environmental Quality Objectives, (verbatim from the agency's own website, July, 2008.):

Each year, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency names a Swedish photographer "Nature Photographer of the Year".