Amanda Lind does not think that the comprehensive report contains any surprises.
There is still massive criticism of the government's climate work. They lack strategies, plans for how we will achieve the goals. Emissions are not decreasing as they need to, she says.
The Green Party agrees with the council that they want to see more expensive fossil fuels, such as gasoline, for example.
We want to see a fair transition so that you ensure that the reduction obligation is increased, but at the same time provide support to those who are affected and targeted, massive efforts so that you can switch to electric cars, she says and continues:
That's how we get the transition going. To give up and let emissions skyrocket, that's neither fair nor sustainable, she says.
"Exacerbating the climate crisis"
The aid organization Oxfam's Swedish policy chief Hanna Nelson is critical of the fact that Climate Minister Romina Pourmokhtari did not show up to receive the report.
It says it all. First, they systematically rejected criticism from researchers and expert authorities. Then they used misleading rhetoric. And then they don't even show up, she says.
The council sees a risk that Sweden will neither reach its own nor the EU's climate goals for 2030.
The governing parties are pursuing a policy that exacerbates the climate crisis and continues to do so. The term of office is ticking on, emissions are increasing, and at the same time, the climate crisis has deadly consequences for those who have done the least to cause it, says Nelson.
"Only in the beginning"
This year, the council chose to focus extra on agriculture, where net emissions have only decreased by 8 percent since 1990, compared to Sweden's total decrease of 38 percent. The chairman of the Federation of Swedish Farmers (LRF), Palle Borgström, says that the figure is misleading and that some measures to reduce emissions are not visible.
Then it's so that we need to do much more and that we're basically only in the beginning of this job, he says.
Among the measures, he mentions cultivating perennial crops, replacing fossil fuels, increased biogas use, restoring wetlands, and feed changes to reduce methane emissions. There is a will, but not the economy, according to LRF.
So therefore, the state needs to be involved and share some of the risk. But we also need to be able to pass on some of the cost to consumers. Otherwise, we'll never get this calculation to work.
