Countries such as Italy, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia are pushing to relax the rules together with large parts of the EU Parliament's conservative parties.
Not good, thinks Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari (L).
I am very worried about this development. We are keeping a close eye on it and we will do everything we can to ensure that this strong legislation does not change course, she says after an EU environment minister meeting in Brussels on Tuesday.
The meeting also discussed the climate target for 2040, which the EU Commission wants to set to a 90 percent reduction compared to emissions in 1990. Sweden is pushing hard for the importance of all EU countries being climate-neutral by 2050 and that the solution cannot be that some can ride on the coattails of others.
This is a very important issue: to shift from all focus on what level of target we have, to actually start talking about what works and how we can expand the solutions that actually have an effect, says Pourmokhtari.
