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full screen Elin Söderberg, climate policy spokesperson for the Green Party. Archive image. Photo: Jessica Gow/TT
Emissions increased this spring. The MP now wants to know if the climate minister intends to resign.
– Pourmokhtari has said herself that she will resign if emissions increase, says MP’s climate policy spokesperson Elin Söderberg.
Statistics Sweden’s statistics from the second quarter of this year show that emissions of greenhouse gases increased.
– It is very serious, but it is also expected, says Söderberg.
– If you shock increase the mixing of fossil fuels in fuel and at the same time make fossil fuels cheaper, then emissions increase.
As the new climate minister, Pourmokhtari said at the UN climate meeting (COP) in Egypt in 2022 that the 2030 climate goals must be reached and that she would “of course” resign if politics drifted in the wrong direction in an SVD interview.
Last weekend, she also commented on her promise herself in Sveriges Radio’s environmental program “Klotet”:
– What I said during the first COP meeting was that if we move further from Sweden’s climate goals and emissions increase with me as climate minister, then I will resign.
However, the minister then also pointed out that statistics for 2022 and 2023 show that emissions did not increase during those years.
TT: Does the Green Party (MP) demand that the minister now resign because of the quarterly report?
– What we see is that the climate and environment minister does not take responsibility for the task she has as minister. Making promises to resign if emissions increase and then pursuing a policy that increases greenhouse gas emissions is serious, says Söderberg.
– The question is turned to the Minister for Climate and Environment now. Will she go back on her promise or will she fulfill it?
TT: But you don’t demand her resignation?
– Pourmokhtari has said herself that she will resign if emissions increase and today Statistics Norway’s statistics clearly show that emissions are increasing.