On Friday, the Tidö parties presented the directives in the control measures investigation, which is to come up with proposals on how Sweden is to achieve its climate goals.
The Social Democrats' climate policy spokesperson Anna-Caren Sätherberg is critical of the investigation not being completed until May 2026 and calls it a "lost mandate period" for the climate.
"The Climate Minister still lacks a plan for how emissions are to be reduced and climate goals achieved. For over a year, the government has been twiddling its thumbs and now come up with the idea that Hassler's proposals are to be further investigated. It's almost like a farce," she says in a comment.
Green Party critical
The Green Party is also critical of the government's timetable.
"We would have liked to see a serious investigation into a national emissions trading system and the investigator analyzing how we can get the right solution in the right place so that the whole country can switch to fossil-free transportation," says the Green Party's climate policy spokesperson Elin Söderberg in a written comment to TT.
The Left Party's climate policy spokesperson Kajsa Fredholm believes that the government is completely ignoring the national climate goals for 2030.
"It's as if the government doesn't want to acknowledge that climate change is happening here and now, and that it's now we need to act," she says in a comment.
46 proposals
Over a year ago, national economist John Hassler, on assignment from the government, presented a report with 46 different proposals for a Swedish climate strategy.
According to Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari, it is part of the control measures investigation's assignment to also look at Hassler's proposals.
