Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Swedish agricultural sector (excluding forestry and the food industry) employs 177,600 people, approximating to 1.5 percent of the Swedish workforce. There are 72,000 farms and other agricultural businesses, together representing half the 1970 equivalent. The average farm has 88 acres (36 ha) of fields.
This list displays all Swedish companies in the Fortune Global 500, which ranks the world's largest companies by annual revenue. The figures below are given in billions of US dollars and are for the fiscal year 2022. [ 1] Also listed are the headquarters location, net profit, number of employees worldwide and industry sector of each company.
Ecology portal. v. t. e. State parties to the Stockholm Convention as of 2022. Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is an international environmental treaty, signed on 22 May 2001 in Stockholm and effective from 17 May 2004, that aims to eliminate or restrict the production and use of persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
In present-day Sweden, large-scale tar production started around 1700. Swedish pine tar was often called "Stockholm tar" [4] since, for many years, a single company held a royal monopoly on its export out of Stockholm, Sweden. [5] It was also known as "Archangel Tar". [6] Stockholm tar became synonymous with top-quality tar.
The location of the trees is In 1985, the Ornäs birch was named as the national tree of Sweden, [1] and examples have been planted in central locations in many Swedish towns. In that same year, the first eight Betula pendula 'Dalecarlica' were imported to Pretoria, South Africa, from a nursery in Germany, by an avid tree lover, Karl Ernst Haese.
Forests of Sweden. Sweden is covered by 68% forest. [1] In southern Sweden, human interventions started to have a significant impact on broadleaved forests around 2000 years ago, where the first evidence of extensive agriculture has been found. [2] Recent studies describe a long-term process of borealization in south-central Sweden starting at ...
Pinus sylvestris is an evergreen coniferous tree growing up to 35 metres (115 feet) in height [ 4] and 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in trunk diameter when mature, [ 5] exceptionally over 45 m (148 ft) tall and 1.7 m ( 51⁄2 ft) in trunk diameter on very productive sites. The tallest on record is a tree over 210 years old growing in Estonia which stands at ...
Renewables and nuclear is given as the electricity produced. Energy in Sweden is characterized by relatively high per capita production and consumption, and a reliance on imports for fossil fuel supplies. With 98% of electricity generation coming from renewables and nuclear in 2023, the electric grid is nearing zero emissions. [ 1] Sweden is ...