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.
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