- On Friday 25 November, the EU’s bank (the European Investment Bank, EIB) and the City of Malmö will officially open a photography exhibition in central Malmö, at Malmö Live.
- The exhibition showcases 21 innovative and climate-friendly projects designed to increase sustainability that have recently been financed by the EIB in Sweden and that show how the EU is supporting the green transition in Swedish projects.
- The photographs are supplemented by captions explaining how the EU supports green energy, sustainable transport, innovative recycling, water-efficient showers and other innovations in Sweden.
How do astronauts take a shower? Malmö resident Mehrdad has invented an astronaut’s shower that not only provides an energy saving of 80% but also uses 90% less water than a conventional shower thanks to water treatment and reuse. A loan from the EIB provided Mehrdad’s company Orbital Systems with money for research and development, as well as for scaling up production to make his dream come true. Mehrdad’s invention is one of the climate action projects showcased by the exhibition.
From Friday 25 November, passing Malmö residents and tourists visiting Malmö, Copenhagen and the Öresund region will have the opportunity to see a temporary photography exhibition organised by the EIB in partnership with the City of Malmö. Eleven large photo frames containing 21 powerful pictures form an installation at Malmö Live, centrally located at Dag Hammarskjölds torg 2. These photographs picture how the EU bank has in real terms supported green and sustainable projects in Sweden in recent years.
The exhibition showcases projects covering a number of Swedish municipalities, regions and companies: from the financing of environmentally friendly electric vehicles at Volvo to SCA’s new forest planning, to name just two examples. This exhibition has free entry and can be seen at Malmö Live until the end of January 2023. The exhibition is touring Sweden and has previously been shown in Stockholm.
A web-based version of the exhibition is available here: Sweden: a sustainable history (eib.org)
Jean-Christophe Laloux, the EIB’s Director General of Operations, had this to say ahead of the official opening: “This exhibition illustrates some of the groundbreaking projects that the EIB has financed in Sweden since 1994, as well as the kind of projects we want to finance in the future. As the EU climate bank, green, innovative projects in Sweden, Europe and the world are at the very top of our agenda. Thanks to the REPowerEU plan, we can offer further funding over the next five years to projects focusing on energy efficiency, renewable energy and electrical vehicle charging, as well as to energy storage projects.”
Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, (s), Chair of Malmö City Council, commented before the official opening: “I am pleased that Malmö’s and the EIB’s climate projects are gaining more visibility through this photo exhibition, which shows the breadth of all the different projects underway in Southern Sweden. We know that cities and regions play a very special key role in driving the green and socially sustainable transition, and we have great ambitions in this area. In order to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, we need to cooperate for more green investments. Together we can up the pace.”
Background information
About the EIB
The EIB operates in around 160 countries and is the world’s largest multilateral lender for climate action projects. The EIB Group has enshrined “ensuring a just transition for all” as one of the four main workstreams in its Climate Bank Roadmap 2025. The EIB’s ambition is to support €1 trillion of investments in climate action and environmental sustainability over the decade up until 2030 and to align all its new operations with the goals and principles of the Paris Agreement.