Stockholm's Royal Seaport

Stockholm’s Royal Seaport is one of the largest urban development areas in northern Europe with 12,000 new homes and 35,000 workplaces. The Royal Seaport runs along the waterline of the Baltic Sea and is just a bicycle ride away from the Center of Stockholm. Additionally, the industrial site around the gasworks have been transformed into an urban district that interacts with port operations and the existing residential areas.

Stockholm’s Royal Seaport is a testbed where new ideas, methods, and approaches are developed and tested to inspire other cities, researchers, companies, and organizations in order to think in new ways. The Royal Seaport was prized an award at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in 2015 for best sustainable urban development. This award is proof that Stockholm is an international leader in sustainable urban development.

The Royal Seaport offers good conditions for the business community to grow. It also offers unique opportunities to build a new vibrant and sustainable urban district with new jobs and homes in a prime location. With Stockholm already being a world leader to commit to creating a climate-adapted society, they city has to content with the challenge of reconciling a rapidly growing city with a high level of environmental ambition.

The vision for the Stockholm Royal Seaport has three generic targets for "A world-class environmental urban district".

1) By 2020 carbon dioxide emissions will be less than 1.5 tonnes per person. This can be compared with the current Swedish average of approximately 4.5 tonnes per person.

2) Stockholm Royal Seaport will be adapted to future climate change, for example increased precipitation.

3) By 2030, the Royal Seaport will be fossil fuel-free.

To achieve these three main targets, more focus will be put on five different areas: energy use, environmentally efficient transport, adaptation to a changed climate, cycles and cyclical at system level, and lifestyle issues.