Countries such as Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are pushing to shake up the rules along with large parts of the EU Parliament’s conservative parties.
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Not good, says Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari (L).
— I am very concerned about this development. We are keeping a close eye on it and we will do everything we can to ensure that this strong legislation does not change course, she says after a meeting of EU environment ministers in Brussels on Tuesday.
The meeting also discussed the climate target for 2040, which the European Commission wants to set at a 90 percent reduction compared to emissions in 1990.
Sweden is pressing hard on the importance of all EU countries then being climate neutral by 2050 and that the solution must not be that some can take advantage of others.
— This is a very important issue: to shift from all focus on what target level we have, to actually start talking about what works and how we can expand the solutions that actually have an effect, says Pourmokhtari.
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The big car countries Germany and Italy is taking the car industry’s side when it comes to reducing emissions requirements for cars.
The goal has long been to stop the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2035. But now more and more countries are going against that line.
It is partly about the fact that thousands of jobs had disappeared at the same time that the EU’s consumers and infrastructure are ready for that step, even if we in Sweden seem to be.
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