Statistics Sweden's statistics from the second quarter of this year show that greenhouse gas emissions increased compared to the same quarter in 2023.
It's very serious, but it's also expected, says the Green Party's climate policy spokesperson Elin Söderberg.
If you increase the blending of fossil fuels in fuels and make fossil fuels cheaper, then emissions will increase.
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As the new climate minister, Pourmokhtari said at the UN climate meeting (COP) in Egypt in 2022 that the climate goals for 2030 would be achieved and that she would "of course" resign if the policy went in the wrong direction in an SVD interview.
Last Friday, she commented on her promise in Swedish Radio's environmental program "Klotet":
What I said during the first COP meeting when I was interviewed by Svenska Dagbladet, was that if we move further away from Sweden's climate goals and emissions increase with me as climate minister, then I will resign.
The minister also pointed out that statistics for 2022 and 2023 show that emissions did not increase during those years.
TT: Does the Green Party (MP) demand that the minister resign now due to the quarterly report?
What we see is that the climate and environment minister is not taking responsibility for the task she has as a minister. To make promises about resigning if emissions increase and then driving a policy that makes emissions of greenhouse gases increase, that's serious, says Söderberg.
The question is now turned to the climate and environment minister. Will she withdraw her promise or will she implement it?
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TT: But you're not demanding her resignation?
Pourmokhtari has said herself that she will resign if emissions increase, and today Statistics Sweden's statistics clearly show that emissions are increasing.
The climate minister comments on Statistics Sweden's latest statistics in writing: "Emissions are temporarily increasing in 2024 as a result of the government reducing the reduction obligation. This is in line with our forecasts, according to which emissions will decrease again in 2025 and onwards as a result of the government's climate policy".
