Sweden’s Social Democrats repeat call for larger CO2 emission cuts
Sweden’s opposition Social Democrats want to tighten greenhouse gas emission limits within the European Union, cutting them to 50 percent of 1990 levels, Swedish Radio News reports.
Speaking following the release of the latest report from the IPCC, which makes for concerning reading, Social Democrat Party Secretary Carin Jämtin says co-operation within the EU on cutting carbon dioxide emissions is vital, while reiterating the party’s climate change policies:
“We want to reduce emissions to 50 percent of the 1990 levels, we also want binding goals at an EU-level for both renewable energy and energy effectivisation. Those three parts are linked. Sweden can do a lot as a country, but we can also act strongly internationally, and the EU is very important in that respect,” she told Swedish Radio.
A top politically-appointed civil servant at the Environment Ministry, Anders Flaking from the Centre Party, says the government is already taking plenty of steps to stop climate change, and no new initiatives are planned following today’s report.
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Will someone please ask them how much the temperature will fall by if they cripple Sweden’s industry. we see this all the time – demands for CO2 reductions that cost a fortune and do basically nothing for temperature.
And who says that temperatures will fall anyway? CO2 has been increasing ove rthe last 17 years but temperatures haven’t. To any sensible person that means the claims about CO2 are wildly exaggerated, but not apparently not to the Social Democrats.