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Karlstad 2021 GDS-Index Report
Karlstad, Sweden
2021 Performance Overview
DMO
Supplier
Social
Environmental
Performance Highlights
Summary
Environmental
Supplier
Social
Karlstad is a Fair Trade City. The city is surrounded by water and situated on a delta where Sweden´s longest river, Klarälven, meets the third largest lake in Europe, Vänern, making it possible to go swimming in the middle of the city center. The destination offers 250 km of bicycle paths. You can find 11 Natura 2000 areas within the municipal boundary. Karlstad Airport has become the first airport in Europe to install a fixed storage tank facility for aviation biofuel. All local bus service is biogas driven. At the end of 2016 100 % of our hotels are eco-certified.
Karlstad is one of seven municipalities in the country designated as the Global Municipality of Sida – The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. This means that we are a municipality that thinks globally and acts locally. It is about working in our work to contribute to the UN's 17 Global Objectives and Agenda 2030. The quality work at school and the work to ensure an equivalent education for all regardless of socio-economic background contribute to the global goal of good education. Sjöstadsverket's investments to improve water quality, sustainable travel, these are other examples that contribute to the global goals of sustainable energy, clean water, sustainable living and sustainable cities and communities. In Karlstad everyone will feel warmly welcome and openly be the one you are and love who you want. Karlstad Municipality has long been working to be a good municipality for HBTQ people to live and live in, for example, where upper secondary school student health first in Sweden became HBT certified.
Does Karlstad - Warm Welcome have a Sustainability Strategy?
Does Karlstad have a sustainable destination certificate?
Does Karlstad - Warm Welcome report on its sustainability performance?
Environmental
Karlstad is a Fair Trade City. The city is surrounded by water and situated on a delta where Sweden´s longest river, Klarälven, meets the third largest lake in Europe, Vänern, making it possible to go swimming in the middle of the city center. The destination offers 250 km of bicycle paths. You can find 11 Natura 2000 areas within the municipal boundary. Karlstad Airport has become the first airport in Europe to install a fixed storage tank facility for aviation biofuel. All local bus service is biogas driven. At the end of 2016 100 % of our hotels are eco-certified.
OF ELECTRICITY FROM RENEWABLES
HECTARES OF GREEN AREA PER 100 000 POPULATION
OF HOTEL ROOMS SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFIED
OF VENUES SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFIED
OF PCOS/DMCS SUSTAINABILITY CERTIFIED
Social
Karlstad is one of seven municipalities in the country designated as the Global Municipality of Sida – The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. This means that we are a municipality that thinks globally and acts locally. It is about working in our work to contribute to the UN's 17 Global Objectives and Agenda 2030. The quality work at school and the work to ensure an equivalent education for all regardless of socio-economic background contribute to the global goal of good education. Sjöstadsverket's investments to improve water quality, sustainable travel, these are other examples that contribute to the global goals of sustainable energy, clean water, sustainable living and sustainable cities and communities. In Karlstad everyone will feel warmly welcome and openly be the one you are and love who you want. Karlstad Municipality has long been working to be a good municipality for HBTQ people to live and live in, for example, where upper secondary school student health first in Sweden became HBT certified.
86
SDG IMPLEMENTATION SCORE
92
SCORE ON SOCIAL PROGRESS INDEX
85
SCORE ON CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDEX
About the Global Destination Sustainability Movement
The Global Destination Sustainability Movement (GDSM) brings together the sustainability pioneers of the business and leisure tourism world, working with destinations to co-create their tourism and events strategies, benchmark and improve their sustainability performance and transform value chains in order to catalyse regeneration.
Our purpose is to engage, inspire and enable the business events and tourism industry to become more sustainable and regenerative.
Our Methodology
In 2022 the GDS-Index used 70 indicators that evaluate destinations sustainability performance across four key areas. If you are interested, you can read our benchmarking methodology in detail here.
Environmental
Performance
Climate, Energy and Emissions
Circularity and Waste
Water
Air Quality
Transportation
Biodiversity
Social
Performance
SDG Alignment
Corruption
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Health, Safety and Wellness
Accessibility
Resident Engagement
Supplier
Performance
Hotels
Airport
Agencies (PCOs & DMCs)
Restaurants
Venues
Academia
Destination
Management
Performance
Destination Strategy
Governance and Reporting
Policy and Certification
Capacity Building
Measurement, Impact and Reporting
Marketing and Communications
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
Ownership
The GDSM is not owned by any one organisation. It is operated as a multi-stakeholder partnership founded and endorsed by IMEX, MCI, the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) and City Destinations Alliance (CityDNA). Gubi Consulting and Guy Bigwood are responsible for the management of the Secretariat.
