The Danish Parliament's climate efforts have primarily focused on achieving the short-term climate goals for 2030. However, a long-term strategy is missing for how Denmark will meet the climate goals for 2045 and 2050 and thus achieve climate neutrality.
This is the assessment of the Climate Council, the government's external expert body on the green transition.
- If you want to be climate neutral quickly, you must also make a larger part of the adjustments in the short term, says the Climate Council's chairman, Peter Møllgaard.
On Friday, the Climate Council will publish its annual assessment of the government's climate program. The government's climate program outlines the planned climate efforts in the future. However, the presented plans are too short-term, the Climate Council believes.
- The climate program could benefit from focusing more on the government's visions for how we will achieve the long-term climate goals, the report says.
While the official climate projections show that Denmark is on track to meet the 2030 target of a 70 percent CO2 reduction, there is still some way to go.
Climate Council: Remember long-term goals
The government is about to call for negotiations on a new climate goal for 2035. The Climate Council points out that it is important that this goal aligns with the long-term ones.
The official goal in the Climate Act is that Denmark should be climate neutral by 2050. However, the SVM government has proposed in its government framework that Denmark should achieve this goal as early as 2045 and furthermore absorb more CO2 than it emits in 2050.
At the same time, several parties have advocated that climate neutrality be brought forward to 2040.
However, the new goal has not yet been enacted, which the Climate Council is also calling for in order to secure climate policy going forward.
- Whether you choose to be climate neutral in 2040, 2045 or 2050 has a great impact on how big a goal you should set in 2035, says Peter Møllgaard.
The Climate Council has raised this criticism before, and the government has responded that when the new 2035 goal is prepared, it will also come up with a climate action plan for the next ten years.
However, it is still not sufficient, says the Climate Council.
- Such an action plan should be supplemented by a long-term climate strategy that extends beyond 10 years into the future, the report says.
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