There is no room for lowering ambitions, says Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari (L) at a press conference.
The task of reviewing the goals goes to the Environmental Objectives Committee, where all parliamentary parties are included.
It is important that the stages lead us in the right direction towards our goals – and do not slow down the pace or cause a detour. It is high time that we now make such an analysis in light of the new climate goals we have received at the EU level, says Romina Pourmokhtari.
Diskussion om transporter
The government's investigator John Hassler proposed as early as autumn 2023 that the Environmental Objectives Committee should be given the task of updating the goals so that they better comply with EU legislation.
There has been a lot of discussion, particularly about the goal of reducing emissions from transport by 70 percent by 2030, compared to 2010.
Reducing emissions from transport is one of the biggest challenges in climate policy. John Hassler would rather focus on measuring electrification.
Now the Environmental Objectives Committee will review this goal.
According to the SD's climate policy spokesperson Martin Kinnunen, this is happening on his party's initiative. He has previously called the transport goal destructive.
Our approach is that sectoral goals are problematic and create inefficiency, he says.
"A sham maneuver"
According to Kinnunen, it is not possible to achieve today's transport goals without it becoming "extremely expensive" with fuel.
This has consequences for Swedish inflation development. This has consequences for our competitiveness, he says.
The fact that the goals are being reviewed is being criticized by the opposition. The Green Party's spokesperson Daniel Helldén calls it a "sham maneuver".
Instead of having a climate policy that enables you to reach the goals, you now want to change the goals. You talk about effective climate policy at the same time as the only thing you do is increase emissions, he says.
The Social Democrats think that the goals can certainly be reviewed so that they harmonize better with the EU's. But it's not the goals that are the problem, emphasizes S.
The problem is that the government is not pursuing a climate policy that enables us to reach any goals, neither Sweden's nor the EU's, says Anna-Caren Sätherberg, the party's climate policy spokesperson.
The overall climate goal for 2045 is not included in the review. There, it is stated that Sweden should not have any net emissions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere by that year at the latest.
