The Center Party is an advocate of financial instruments and reduction obligations, which means that fuel suppliers must reduce greenhouse gas emissions from petrol and diesel. While the Sweden Democrats want to lower the duty to an absolute minimum.
– It must cost more to get dirty. We want to tighten the climate targets and we want to reduce emissions, says Annie Lööf (C).
– We will continue with what we are good at – technical development, innovation and new energy technology. We are among the world’s best at it. Sweden already has vanishingly low emissions. Continuing to reduce emissions in Sweden is very expensive. It costs more to reduce emissions in Sweden than to spend money on reducing emissions in, for example, China, India or the USA for that matter, and then climate goals lead to what we see today – namely extreme fuel prices, people find it much harder to make ends meet their everyday life financially and food becomes more expensive and that drives inflation. It is clear that we have to get away from politics that is about pure self-torture, says Jimmie Åkesson (SD).
Annie Lööf – you have several times called Jimmie Åkesson a climate denier. How do you mean?
– Just a week or so ago, he said “it’s always hot in an election year”. These ranting comments. The climate crisis is happening here and now. When I want to tighten the climate targets, the Sweden Democrats can hardly spell emission reductions in their own budget. We are very far apart in climate policy.
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