These are measures that give us strengthened conditions for clean environments both on land and in water, says Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari (The Liberals) at a press conference.
The money will, among other things, go to counteracting the over-fertilization of seas and lakes. In total, the Tidö parties will allocate 250 million kronor for this next year.
The over-fertilization is still one of our biggest environmental problems, with negative effects on both fish and the environment, says Pourmokhtari.
In addition to this, the government wants to allocate 100 million kronor for the maintenance of national parks and 85 million to prevent the spread of PFAS.
The spread of PFAS in the environment is very serious. PFAS substances pose a threat to our drinking water, but also to other food, says Pourmokhtari and continues:
The EU is working too slowly to ban things that are directly hazardous, both for our nature in the case of invasive species, but also here with chemicals and PFAS poisons.
In Denmark, the government has decided to quickly phase out plant protection products containing PFAS. Nothing like that is proposed from the Swedish side, but Romina Pourmokhtari does not rule it out in the future, even if she describes it as a "sensitive issue" that is discussed in various EU councils.
But it is definitely relevant to look at it in the national plan that we are now developing against PFAS, she says.
The goal is for the plan to be ready before the election next year.
The Social Democrats' climate and environment policy spokesperson Anna-Caren Sätherberg thinks that the government "beats its chest" by calling the money they are now allocating investments.
"In fact, they are just patching and repairing after their own cuts", she writes in a comment.
