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Sammanfattning: The pace of implementing the 17 global sustainability goals must increase drastically. The complexity of the goals is a challenge and mapping out interactions between them is identified as a way to explore their system properties and improve implementation. Sustainability goal 12 (sustainable consumption and production) has been suggested as one of the areas that affects and interacts with most other sustainability goals. An effective way to overall improve implementation would be to focus on preventing negative interactions with sustainability goal 12. The purpose of this study was to explore how measures in a local strategic environmental program (Scania, Sweden) relate to Agenda 2030. Specifically, the measures for sustainable consumption were examined. Using a conceptual mapping tool, a modified version of the 7-point scale by Nilsson et al. (2016), interactions were classified and scored at target-level in a two-step process. The goals with most interactions with goal 12 in the Scania context, and selected for mapping with the measures were: 1. no poverty, 2. zero hunger, 6. clean water and sanitation, 7. affordable and clean energy, 9. industry, innovations and infrastructure. Further mapping showed that in most cases the Scania measures are neutral in relation to the targets of the selected sustainability goals, although overall there are interactions with all the selected sustainability goals. Positive interactions are by far the most commonly reoccurring while there is a potential for negative interactions with sustainability goals 1 and 2. Goal 7 was associated with most interactions. The measures with the most interactions concern environmental and social requirements in public procurement and measures with the least interactions concern knowledge initiatives about sustainable consumption patterns. In the mapping between measures and targets, interactions were only examined in the direction from measure towards target and not vice versa, which entails that a complete system perspective is lacking. This one-way influence limits the possibilities of fully assessing the connections between the Scania measures and Agenda 2030. The findings in this study are subject to a degree of uncertainty and in order to reduce this, independent researchers could evaluate the results.