Of the roughly half a billion, 250 million kronor will go to counteracting the over-fertilization of seas and lakes.
Over-fertilization is still one of our biggest environmental problems, with negative effects on both fish and the environment, says Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari (The Liberals) at a press conference.
EU too slow
In addition to this, the government wants to allocate 100 million kronor to the maintenance of national parks and 85 million to prevent the spread of PFAS.
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, says Pourmokhtari.
The Danish 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.
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.
”Small change”
The Social Democrats, the Green party and the Centre Party are all critical of the government calling it investments. According to the Centre Party, it is about "number juggling", while the Social Democrats say that the government "patches and repairs after their own cuts".
Green party member Emma Nohrén, chair of the Riksdag's Environment and Agriculture Committee, calls what the government is now allocating small change:
"Throughout the entire term of office, the government has implemented drastic cuts in environmental work", she writes in a comment and continues:
"Now, with the election around the corner, they are trying to sweep away the traces with small change and call it an investment. A few tens of millions cannot make up for cuts in the billions".
