Expert panel: Sweden won’t meet its climate targets
- Sweden is doing more to counteract reductions in greenhouse gas emissions than to support them, and emissions will rise in the short term rather than fall.
- That’s the verdict of Sweden’s Climate Policy Council, an independent expert body tasked with grading the government’s climate action plan: Sweden’s roadmap for meeting its 2030 and 2045 emissions reduction targets.
- ”They say it doesn’t really add up, it’s not concrete, and it’s basically misleading,” says Niklas Zachrisson, host of Swedish Radio’s environment program Klotet.
Radio Sweden
For more on Sweden’s climate targets, listen to Radio Sweden’s full report.
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