Six out of eight parties block the Paris Agreement’s goals

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Six out of eight parties block the Paris Agreements goals

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ALMEDALEN. The Left Party and the Green Party are alone in having a climate policy close to the goals of the Paris Agreement.

It shows a new analysis carried out jointly by several organizations, including WWF and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation.

– Our young people understand that our politicians do not do what is required by science. Now all parties must step forward and be brave, says Frida Berry Eklund, spokesperson for Our Children’s Climate and co-founder of Klimatkollen.

Only the Left Party and the Green Party have a climate policy close to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5-degree target.

The rest of the parties fail – their carbon budget is far too high.

– For every year that the parties duck the responsibility, the climate debt to our children increases – we can not accept that, says Frida Berry Eklund, spokesperson for Our children’s climate and co-founder of Klimatkollen in a press release.

The figures come from a survey conducted by Klimatkollen, the research network Researchers’ Desk, WWF, Our children’s climate and ClimateView, in collaboration with PwC and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation.

– It is encouraging that four parties have higher ambitions than Sweden’s current climate goals and that two of them have ambitions that almost reach a fairly distributed carbon dioxide budget for Sweden, according to the Paris Agreement’s 1.5-degree goal. But now the ambitions must be put into practice, says Alasdair Skelton, professor of geochemistry and petrology, Stockholm University.

“Must sharpen the work”

If we are to be in line with the Paris Agreement 1.5-degree target, Sweden should emit approximately 170 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.

Sweden’s current target is 335 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, ie more than twice as much as the Paris Agreement requires.

The survey was conducted through a survey of all parliamentary parties, where all responded except the Moderates. Subsequently, the answers have been analyzed by researchers.

– A fact-based policy must include both objectives and measures that are in line with the Paris Agreement. It is clear that all parties must now step up their work, says Madeleine van der Veer, responsible for social policy, WWF.

full screenAll parties except the Moderates responded to the survey. Their results are calculated on the basis that they previously supported Sweden’s current climate goals.

Facts

Table explanation:

  • Climate justice goal (Stoddard and Anderson, 2022): 170 Mton CO2
  • Sweden’s current target: 355 Mton CO2 (equivalent to 2.1 times more than the Paris Agreement’s 1.5-degree target).
  • Sweden Democrats: 355 Mton CO2 (Sweden’s current target)
  • Social Democrats: 355 Mton CO2 (Sweden’s current target)
  • The Christian Democrats: 355 Mton CO2 (Sweden’s current goal)
  • Center Party: 311 Mton CO2
  • Left Party: 217 Mton CO2)
  • Environmental part: 180 Mton CO2)
  • Liberals: 355 Mton CO2 (Sweden’s current target)

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