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full screen MP’s climate policy spokesperson Elin Söderberg. Stock Photography Photo: Jessica Gow/TT
A public transport ticket for the whole country, support for leasing an electric car and a special bonus for residents of sparsely populated areas who buy an electric car. These are some of the proposals in the Green Party’s alternative to the government’s climate action plan.
But the party ducks the question of how much the reduction obligation should be increased.
Just before Christmas, the government and the Sweden Democrats presented their climate action plan with the title “all the way to net zero”.
– It is a title that should not be allowed to be put on a product that so obviously lacks the path to net zero, says MP’s climate policy spokesperson Elin Söderberg.
She is particularly critical of the fact that the plan lacks measures to reduce emissions in the short term.
The greatest potential for large emission reductions in the near term for Sweden is found in the transport sector. That’s why a lot of the MP’s climate plan, out of a total of over 180 proposals, deals with making transport more efficient, replacing fossil-powered vehicles with electric ones and replacing fossil fuels with renewable ones.
As regards the reduction obligation, which the government lowered sharply at the turn of the year in order to bring down fuel prices, the MP wants to investigate the future level.
The plan states that the duty must be reintroduced at a level that ensures both reduced climate emissions and investments in sustainable biofuels.
Elin Söderberg emphasizes that the reduction obligation must be part of many measures needed to reduce emissions.
FACT Sweden’s climate goals
Sweden’s overall climate goal is for Sweden to have no net emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere by 2045 at the latest.
A milestone goal is that emissions in 2030 should be 63 percent lower than emissions in 1990.
Another stage goal is that emissions from domestic transport, apart from domestic flights, must be reduced by at least 70 percent by 2030 at the latest compared to 2010.
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