TV4 Nyheterna has reviewed three climate policy measures that the government highlighted in the Tidö Agreement and in the government declaration, and asked an environmental scientist to comment on the impact these measures have on Swedish climate emissions.
More and more people are buying electric cars and the new government points to expanded charging infrastructure as one of its most important climate measures. But the most common reason why Swedes do not buy an electric car is that it is too expensive.
– Charging infrastructure is important, but it doesn’t mean much if there aren’t electric cars on our roads as well, and there we have a big problem when you make fossil fuel much more competitive through reduced reduction obligations, reduced fuel tax, perhaps eroding the bonus malus system , says environmental scientist Mathias Fridahl.
Watch the Minister of the Environment answer questions about environmental policy, in the player above