The government and the Sweden Democrats want to review Sweden’s climate goals for 2030.
The reason is that they are not in line with the EU.
– There is no room for lowering ambitions, says Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari (L).
There have been many discussions as to whether Sweden’s milestone goals for the climate should be scrapped, but now it is clear: The government wants to review Sweden’s climate goals until 2030.
This is what Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari(L) says at Thursday’s press conference.
– It is important that the stages lead us in the right direction towards our goals – and not slow down or cause a detour to get there. It is high time that we now make such an analysis in the light of the new climate goals we have received at EU level.
Risk of not achieving the goals
The reason is that the current goals conflict with the EU’s. Since 2023, there have been question marks as to whether Sweden will be able to reach the EU’s climate goals – which was established by the Government’s investigator and also professor John Hassler.
In an investigation, 46 proposals were put forward on how the goals could be achieved in a socio-economically efficient manner.
There has been a lot of discussion around the goal of reducing emissions from transport by 70 percent by 2030, compared to 2010.
Reducing emissions from transport is one of the biggest challenges, something that the Environmental Goals Committee will now review.
– Our assessment is that the solution is more electrification, says Pourmokhtari.