In total, it is about 250,000 tons of emission reductions that will benefit Sweden up to 2030. The price tag lands at around 400 kronor per ton of emission reduction.
The government has significantly increased investments in this type of climate compensation. But they meet criticism. The government's own investigator, economics professor John Hassler, for example, believes that one should not be allowed to count investments in other countries towards one's own climate goals and that it is not possible to calculate how effective emission reductions in poor countries actually are.
Climate Minister Romina Pourmokhtari (L) writes in an email to DN that climate investments in other countries "can make it more cost-effective to achieve the EU's climate goals and contribute to more countries seeing the benefits of sustainable initiatives".
