Overview
Svensk Kolinlagring (Swedish Carbon Sequestration) is an independent, non-profit, expert-driven initiative based in Malmö, Sweden, founded in 2018 to transform Swedish agriculture. The organisation operates as a multi-stakeholder platform connecting companies, farmers, researchers, and investors around the common goal of increasing carbon storage in Swedish agricultural soils. It is carried out through a collaboration between project owner MiljöMatematik Malmö AB and Albaeco, together with participating farmers, investors, researchers, and other partners. Svensk Kolinlagring has been recognised with numerous awards, including the Lions Environmental Prize (2023), Region Skåne’s Environmental Prize (2024), and a nomination for the Nordic Council’s Environmental Prize (2021), and was longlisted for the Food Planet Prize in 2025.
Mission and focus areas
Svensk Kolinlagring’s core mission is to transition the food system towards agroecological agriculture, using carbon sequestration as a lever for systemic change. The organisation is guided by the recognition that there is too much carbon in the air and too little in the soil, and that a long-term transition to agroecological, carbon-storing, and regenerative farming methods is required to stay within planetary boundaries. Its approach addresses the interconnected challenges of climate change, food security, and biodiversity through nature-based solutions. The organisation works through economic incentives, knowledge sharing, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and research to establish agriculture as a carbon sink.
Structure and governance
Svensk Kolinlagring AB is a registered company (org. nr. 559291-5879, registered December 2020) and operates as a subsidiary of MiljöMatematik Malmö AB, headquartered in Malmö, Sweden. The initiative is non-profit in orientation and receives project funding from organisations including Vinnova, Mistra, the Swedish Postcode Foundation (Svenska Postkodlotteriets Stiftelse), Sparbanken Syd, and Formas, among others. It maintains research collaborations with leading Swedish academic institutions including the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and international partners.
Programs and offerings
Svensk Kolinlagring offers a structured carbon farming programme that provides farmers with support, advisory services, and financial compensation for adopting carbon-sequestering and soil-improving farming practices. For investors and companies, it offers a range of climate investment packages designed to fund the agricultural transition. The organisation operates a web-based farmer portal for data registration, verification, and management of carbon sequestration activities. It also delivers training, lectures on soil health, and knowledge-exchange events — including an annual Jordhälsofestival (Soil Health Festival) — and participates in European research projects such as the LIFT project, which explores how public food procurement can drive an agroecological transition across Europe.
Our mission – carbon as a lever
There is too much carbon in the air and too little carbon in the soils. The IPCC’s future scenarios, in which we succeed in counteracting climate change, include a transition of agriculture from a carbon source to a carbon sink. If we are to stay below the 1.5-degree limit, a long-term transition to agroecological, carbon-storing and regenerative farming methods is required – a food system within the planet’s limits.
Svensk Kolinlagring is transforming the food system towards agroecological agriculture. We are a living lab and, through economic incentives, knowledge sharing, collaboration and research, we are working towards a carbon sequestering agriculture with added value.
