The Sweden Democrats’ climate policy spokesperson Martin Kinnunen downplays the threat of a government crisis as a result of the reduction duty debate. In Ekot’s Saturday interview, he says that you should not “overdramatize” the threat and that the starting point is that you should agree with the government parties on the levels of biofuel in diesel and gasoline. – But it is always like that, if the Sweden Democrats and the other cooperation parties do not agree on important issues, there can be problems, says Kinnunen. Earlier this week, party colleague Oscar Sjöstedt, in an interview with TV4 Nyheterna, threatened a government crisis if the Tidö parties cannot reach a consensus on the reduction obligation, i.e. how much biofuel should be mixed in diesel and gasoline. The agreement is that it should land at the “EU’s minimum level”, which SD believes is zero. But Kinnunen points out that the input values of the other parties are not yet known. “Sweden stands for perhaps one per thousand” Kinnunen is also asked about the UN climate report that was presented this week and what Sweden must do to reach the goal in the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. – It is difficult to say because Sweden accounts for perhaps one per thousand of these emissions, so even if we remove all emissions, it will not make any difference, he says.
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Downplays the threat of a government crisis: You shouldn’t “overdramatize”
