The Government and the Sweden Democrats are presenting directives for an inquiry on Friday, which will analyze how Sweden can achieve its climate goals in relation to the EU.
The so-called policy instrument inquiry will, among other things, propose how the reduction obligation should be developed and map out how other comparable EU countries will proceed to achieve the goals.
Households should not be affected
The inquiry will also propose how fossil fuels should be phased out by 2045, without causing "harmful effects for parts of the country or society".
The aim is to fulfill commitments without households and businesses being negatively affected by unreasonably high costs, says Romina Pourmokhtari at a press conference.
She calls the directives broad and says there are "great opportunities" for the investigator to propose various policy instruments.
According to Martin Kinnunen, the Sweden Democrats' environmental policy spokesperson, it is important that climate policy has "legitimacy among the population".
Without popular support, we will never get long-term rules of the game without automatically getting a volatile policy when it comes to policy instruments, he says.
Ready by 2026
The inquiry is expected to be completed by May 4, 2026, with only a few months left until the next parliamentary election.
Will anything be able to be implemented before the 2026 election?
The investigator reports when they have completed their assignment. We are ready to implement what the investigator proposes as soon as they are finished, says Pourmokhtari.
The investigator will be Svante Mandell, chief economist for environmental issues at the National Institute of Economic Research.
This week, new statistics from the Statistics Sweden (SCB) showed that greenhouse gas emissions from the Swedish economy increased sharply during the second quarter of the year.
