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Gustaf Landahl
Head of dept. Planning & Environment, City of Stockholm
Gustaf Landahl, has a Masters degree in civil engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1982. After working for the national government and for a private consultant enterprise, he started to work for the City of Stockholm in 1988. He led the city’s work with comprehensive land-use planning and managed to bring several plans for sustainable development to decision by the city council.
In 1995 Mr. Landahl was appointed head of Department Planning & Environment. This department is responsible for environmental control in Stockholm as well as environmental issues in land use planning and traffic.
Mr. Landahl heads Stockholms work on Climate protection with emphasis on the city’s work to reduce greenhouse gases and to adapt to a changed climate. One part of this has been the work to create a market for sustainable transport and clean vehicles.
The work on clean vehicles has been awarded with several prizes among others: CIVITAS award 2006, OSMOSE award 2006, The Swedish National Road Authorities Environmental Prize 2006, Energy Globe Award for best National Submission 2008 and nominated to the Energy Globe Prize for the best project in the category “air” 2008. The Greenfleet award 2008 for Public sector Innovation.