In this study we focus on how Swedish youth organizations influenced formulation of anational agenda 2030 policy, contributing enhanced understanding how independent,representative and youth-led organizations can facilitate young people's participation insocietal change. A secondary query concerns what challenges and opportunities to a highlevel of youth participation can be found, aiming to learn from a crucial case of youthparticipation in formulation of national policy under favorable conditions in the supposedlyinclusive Agenda 2030-framework. This case study was designed inspired by process tracingmethod and an attributed influence approach using semi structured interviews to supplementrecords and reports from the Agenda 2030-committee. Through this study we conclude thatyouth organizations are seen as important and influential actors, and often invited as experts.But evidence of large degree of effect on final policy is lacking. Related to this we find thatthe Agenda 2030-committee largely wielded a form of communicational influence towardsthe Swedish government which for the most part ignored its conclusion andrecommendations. We therefore conclude that this unclear relation between the dialoguestructure and formal decision-making process contributes a considerable challenge toqualitative participation. Even as the consultation have been designed to facilitate organizedinterests we find that government officials stress the importance of reaching “real” youthrather than members of youth organizations, effectively creating a dichotomy betweenorganized and non-organized youth.

China is today the global leader and innovator of sharing economy, and the Chinese government has included it in their Five Year (2016-2020) development plan. China has during the last 30 years been the most rapid economically developing country in the world, but it has also brought along some negative consequences. It has become evident that the quick development of China has taken place at the expense of the environment. It is also described that the country has an economic development model heavily based on investment, export and high consumption which is arguably not sustainable.  The sharing economy presents great potential to change how consumers use resources andgoods, and also presents an opportunity to solve sustainability challenges such as decreasingenvironmental, economic and social conditions. There are today little research on this subject, especially empirical, and more research is preferred.  The purpose of this study is to investigate and explore how the sustainability work and marketing of three selected sharing economy companies in Shanghai correspond to customers’ motives for using sharing economy services. To collect data, three interviews were conducted with three different companies that utilize the sharing economy model in Shanghai, China. These companies are major players in the industries of ride-sharing, bike-sharing and house-sharing. Additionally, an online consumer survey regarding customers’ primary motives for using sharing economy services were conducted in order to fulfill our purpose and answer our research questions.  Results from this study conclude that the primary motives for consumers to use sharingeconomy is convenience (bike-sharing and ride-sharing) and to experience something unique (house-sharing). Other important motives are time-saving, accessibility and low cost aspects. The companies, on the other hand, tend to emphasize low cost, environmental and socialaspects. That is, consumer views are often in line with the three companies' marketing andsustainability views. However, there are several cases in this study where it differ.

Sweden is often identified as one of the countries where implementation of Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development goals (SDGs) is high. There is still, however, considerable room for improvements, especially considering the mitigation of climate change, and in addition, the reinterpretation of Agenda 2030 and the SDGs have been proven challenging in Swedish sustainability governance. Infrastructure, responsible for approximately 80%, has been identified as an area where strategies for climate change mitigation are likely to have a significant impact. Simultaneously, infrastructure development has been identified as key in driving human development and fulfilling Agenda 2030 and the SDGs. As sustainable infrastructure is becoming increasingly important, understanding what constitutes sustainable infrastructure is essential. Using a case study approach, this study explores the conceptualization and integration of sustainability in Sweden, explicitly focusing on road culvert replacements in northern Sweden. The findings reveal a lack of a shared understanding of what constitutes sustainable transport infrastructure but show a partially shared understanding of what constitutes sustainable road culvert replacement practices. The analysis highlights challenges faced by public organizations in implementing sustainability and emphasizes the importance of stakeholder collaboration and knowledge exchange. This research provides insights into strategies for integrating sustainability into road culvert replacements and highlights the importance of stakeholder collaboration for sustainable outcomes, contributing to future sustainable infrastructure development.

I september 2015 kom världens länder att sluta upp kring en plan för global hållbar utveckling. Envägledande plan för policyutveckling och arbete på nationell, regional och global nivå. Agenda 2030 - Transforming our world som den heter och i uppsatsen refereras den som Agenda 2030 (A/RES/70/1/,2015). Uppsatsen du nu håller i din hand undersöker Länsstyrelsen i Stockholms arbete med Agenda 2030. Iuppsatsen utforskas förutsättningarna för myndigheten att arbeta med agendan, hur man på myndighetenhittills har hanterat uppdraget och hur man förstår uppdraget. Uppsatsen lyfter fram kunskapsläget kringAgenda 2030, olika hinder för arbetet och inte minst motivationen och förväntningar hos tjänstemännen att arbeta med uppdraget. Studiens empiriska material består av en kartläggning och sammanställning av alla yttranden som Länsstyrelserna i Sverige gjort på Uppdrag till statliga myndigheter att bidra med underlag för Sveriges genomförande av Agenda 2030 (Regeringen, 2016d), intervjuer med tjänstemän som direkt ellerindirekt arbetar med Agenda 2030 samt en enkät om Agenda 2030 på Länsstyrelsen i Stockholm.I analysen av det empiriska materialet framkallas en bild av motsättningar samtidigt som det finns enallmänt positiv anda. Höga prioriteter bland beslutsfattare angående Agenda 2030 kontrasteras mot en lågupplevd prioritetsnivå bland tjänstemän som kommer att arbeta med Agenda 2030. Analysen visar att det finns flera grundläggande förutsättningar som kan innebära svårigheter för att Länsstyrelsen i Stockholmatt genomföra Agenda 2030 i enlighet med dess grundläggande ambitioner. Dessa handlar om att man istort sett är ganska nöjd med det man åstadkommer i sitt dagliga arbete och att Agenda 2030 kan bli ett insorteringsdokument snarare än ett verktyg för förändringsarbete. Analysen visar att kunskapsnivån om Agenda 2030 är låg och att verksamhetsområdet har stor påverkan vilka frågor man tycker är viktigare än andra i agendan vilket i sig är ett problem när det kommer till att arbeta utifrån helheter. Studien bekräftar vikten av tydlighet kring vad som ska implementeras och dess prioritering för att tjänstemän ska prioritera frågan. Studien pekar mot att ett nytt förhållningssätt kommer att krävas för att Agenda 2030 ska blir det levande ramverk som det är tänkt att vara för att åstadkomma en transformativ förändring, detta gäller även Länsstyrelsen i Stockholm.

Since the launch of United Nations Agenda 2030, sustainable development has been a goal of the Swedish government. Furthermore, Sweden has vowed to be second to none in taking advantage of the potential benefits of digital technology. Both goals can be construed as policy imperatives, and as such, they have implications for the publicly financed library sector. The aim of this master’s thesis is to clarify the meaning of sustainable development and digitalisation in a public library context in order to facilitate a critical discussion within LIS of these two imperatives. Firstly, the thesis attempts to determine, by using Quentin Skinner’s historical method, what official policy documents published by the government and National Library of Sweden want to express by using sustainable development and digitalisation with regard to the library sector. Secondly, it tries to discern whether the two policy objectives are in accord, or in conflict, with one another. The analysis shows that both policy imperatives are in concord with established activities performed by libraries, and, furthermore, may strengthen the library sector as a positive societal force. However, in order to convey this impression, features that may run counter to the stated goals are disregarded, or downplayed. The study points to a mixed result regarding potential conflicts between the two policy imperatives. On the one hand, digitalisation undermines environmental sustainability, on the other hand, it strengthens economic sustainability. In the case of social sustainability, the impacts of digitalisation can be both beneficial and detrimental.

Malmö, Sweden’s third largest city, is gaining an international reputation for being a creative and environmental conscious city with cutting-edge architecture. At the same time Malmö is infamous for its high levels of poverty and occasional riots. In this thesis I will analyse how the municipal politicians in Malmö — responsible for Malmö’s budget 2022 — formulate social problems in Malmö, as well as the finances they put forward to tackle said problems. My analysis will be guided by Carol Bacchi’s (2010) method What’s the problem represented to be (WPR) as well as perspec- tives of intersectionality and feminist geography.  What is particularly interesting in the analysis of the budget’s social sustainability goals is that Malmö has been using the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and 169 targets in Agenda 2030 as a blueprint for the budget ever since 2015.

Under de senaste decennierna har CSR-begreppet blivit ett omtalat ämne. Det ökade hållbarhetsintresset och ökade oron för världen kom att påverka Agenda 2030. Agendan influerade vidare lagändring i Sverige i Årsredovisningslagen år 2017 som berörde vilka företag som behöver upprätta en lagstadgad hållbarhetsrapport. Enligt forskare har bankbranschen en indirekt påverkan på miljön, men direkt påverkan på hållbarhetsfrämjande projekt och har således en avgörande roll i uppnåendet av de globala hållbarhetsmålen. Trots detta är befintlig forskning om bankernas hållbarhetsarbete knapp och studier har främst fokuserat på storbanker. Således påstår forskare att framtida studier om SMF-banker krävs som jämför utvecklingen och mängden producerad hållbarhetsrapportering hos storbanker och SMF-banker över tid. Studien syftar att undersöka hållbarhetsrapporteringen i den svenska bankbranschen där studien bygger på en kvalitativ innehållsanalys som genomförts med hjälp av CONI-modellen samt utlåtanden från bankerna. Urvalet bestod av fyra banker, två SMF och två storbanker, indelade i nischkategorierna värdepappersinstitut och konsumtionskreditbanker. Resultatet visar en ökning av frekvens och innehållskvalitet i samtliga bankers hållbarhetsrapporter under studieperioden. Det visar vidare att nischkategorierna anammat olika förhållningssätt till hållbarhetsarbetet och att signifikanta skillnader föreligger det året vardera bank upprättar sin första hållbarhetsrapport. CSR:s sociala perspektiv har varit dominerande och resultaten visar en ökad homogenitet inom vardera nischkategori sett till hållbarhetsarbetet, men signifikanta liknelser mellan SMF-bankerna kan inte tydas. Resultaten indikerar att bankbranschen primärt ägnar sig åt de perspektiven av CSR där de kan göra störst skillnad. / In recent decades, the concept of CSR has become a hot topic. The increased interest in sustainability and the increased concern for the world came to influence Agenda 2030. The agenda further influenced a change in the law in Sweden in the Annual Accounts Act in 2017, which concerned which companies need to draw up a statutory sustainability report. According to researchers, the banking industry has an indirect impact on the environment, but a direct impact on sustainability-promoting projects and thus has a decisive role in achieving sustainability goals. Despite this, existing research on the banks' sustainability work is scarce and studies have mainly focused on large banks. Thus, researchers claim that future studies on SME banks are required that compare the development and amount of sustainability reporting produced by large banks and SME banks over time. The study aims to investigate sustainability reporting in the Swedish banking industry, where the study is based on a qualitative content analysis carried out using the CONI-model and bank expressions. The sample consisted of four banks, two SMEs and two large banks, divided into the niche categories securities institutions and consumer credit banks. The result shows an increase in frequency and content quality in all banks' sustainability reports during the study period. It further shows that the niche categories adopted different approaches to sustainability work and that significant differences exist in the year each bank prepares its first sustainability report. CSR's social perspective has been dominant, and the results show an increased homogeneity within each niche category in terms of sustainability work. We cannot discern significant similarities between the SME banks. The results indicate that the banking industry primarily devotes itself to the perspectives of CSR where they can make the biggest difference.

The Supreme Court of the United States’ decision to reclaim the constitutional right to carry out an abortion in 2022, was founded in a far-right politician's agenda. Considering recent developments in Western countries in Europe, far-right political parties have increased their power during the 2010s until present time. With this thesis, the aim was to review far-right European politicians’ abortion policies on national and EU-level, to be able to present whether a threat towards abortion rights and thus human development could be seen in Europe as well. The human development approach was the theoretical framework used to analyze the findings in this thesis. This framework helped understand in what ways anti abortion policies oppose different types of freedom and general goals in society, and how this affects well-being, agency and justice. The research was carried out through a qualitative desk study with a deductive element, by presenting data in forms of results of roll-call votes in the European Parliament, party programmes and agendas, and other official documents. The results and analysis showed that the reviewed politicians and parties conduct policies against abortion rights at both national and EU-level, which drew the conclusion that tendencies of a threat toward human development in the West were found.

The purpose of this paper is to determine how teachers in their future profession can provide an inclusive mathematics education, free from discrimination, in fulfilment of goal 4 (SDG 4) in the sustainable development goals in Agenda 2030. Goal 4 is to “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” (UN, 2022). The research questions discussed in the paper are the following: Which inclusive methods can mathematics teachers implement in the classroom (in accordance with SDG 4 in Agenda 2030)? What challenges do mathematics teachers encounter in their profession, in relation to inclusive education? On what grounds might discrimination against students in mathematics education occur? In developing the paper the work has been divided between the two authors. Individual searches were made and later discussed. The initial searches contained the keywords "discrimination", "mathematics education", "safety" and "Agenda 2030" with additional synonyms. Later on, “inclusion” was determined as a key search word as it generated more relevant search results. The paper discusses inclusion within mathematics education, student perceptions and framings in connection with the subject. Regarding this, methods for inclusion within the area are presented in the paper's conclusion. The methods include language-oriented teaching, variation, differentiation possibilities, the relationship between the teacher and the students, student-led teaching, repetition, routines, intervention and follow-up.

Vår tids största utmaning är den globala uppvärmningen. Trots en ökad medvetenhet kringhållbarhet i samtliga branscher stiger temperaturen på jordklotet. Bygg- ochfastighetsbranschen står för 21% av Sveriges inhemska växthusgasutsläpp och bär ett stortansvar för arbetet mot målen i Agenda 2030. De traditionella entreprenadupphandlingarfokuserar endast på bästa pris. Invanda arbetssätt bör bearbetas, där konkurrenskraften iupphandlingsskedet kan utnyttjas bättre.Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur upphandlande myndigheter implementerarhållbarhetskrav vid offentlig upphandling enligt lagen om offentlig upphandling, LOU, förROT-projekt av flerbostadshus. Studien är av explorativ karaktär och bygger på kvalitativtmaterial där tre analyser kombineras. Med kompetens inom hållbar offentlig upphandling hartolv personer intervjuats. Tillsammans med en omfattande litteraturstudie samt en praktisknulägesanalys belyser studien goda exempel och vägleder upphandlande myndighet blandverktyg för implementeringen av uppföljningsbara hållbarhetskrav. Dessutom presenterasincitament och förutsättningar för hållbar offentlig upphandling i harmoni med Agenda 2030:smål 11, 12 och 13 i form av en checklista.Av studiens resultat framgår att ämnet är relativt ostuderat, där uppföljning av hållbarhetskravär den minst utvecklade delen av hållbar upphandling. Social hållbarhet pekas ut somsvårbemästrat generellt. Ambition från kommunen, mandat för upphandlaren och ansvarigöver uppföljningen är förbättringsområden och behövs för att vikten av hållbarhet ska öka vidoffentlig upphandling. Vidare efterfrågas reglering av LOU med striktare direktiv och störreöppenhet kring likabehandlingsprincipen.Att utföra en fallstudie av en hållbar offentlig upphandling utifrån denna studies checklista ärett intressant område för vidare forskning.