There is fierce criticism directed at the government and its recently published climate program, which outlines the planned climate action in the coming years.
The Unity Party and the Alternative are deeply disappointed after the publication on Tuesday morning. They criticize the climate program for lacking new climate measures. Instead, the publication merely contains an outline of already concluded climate agreements, the criticism is.
- The climate projection should be the document in which the government presents what they will do to take responsibility for solving the specific challenges and ensure that the reductions are brought home on time, says the Green Party's climate spokesperson, Leila Stockmarr.
That is not the case, she believes.
- Now it has become a museum document in which the government looks back on previous achievements, but does not present anything new, continues Leila Stockmarr.
The Alternative party fears that the government will only discover the lack of implemented reductions too late.
- Everything indicates that implementation will be difficult, and the planned revisits of the climate agreements are so late that it may in practice be impossible to make new political agreements and new implementation, says climate spokesperson Torsten Gejl.
Tighter needs
The government's climate program this year emphasizes a heightened need for implementation of the adopted climate policy.
Because even though political agreements have been made about the path to achieving the climate goals, the climate cannot feel it until the agreements and reductions of greenhouse gases have been implemented.
The climate program states that reductions of 10.7 million tons of CO2 have been implemented in 2030, while the reduction of 4.0 million tons of CO2 is still being implemented.
Climate Minister Lars Aagaard (M) acknowledges that there is still work ahead.
- We are on the right track towards 2030, but we are still in the middle of the long haul, and now is the time to hold on, he says in a press release.
However, the Unity List is not satisfied with the minister's announcement, because according to the party it does not followed up by concrete action to ensure implementation.
- The massive challenges of translating ambitions on a piece of paper into real CO2 reductions are not taken seriously, says Leila Stockmarr.
Too late
The Danish Parliament has adopted a number of climate agreements that have not yet delivered CO2 reductions in reality. This applies, for example, to the plans for carbon capture and storage, which are still in their development phase, but which are not expected to deliver reductions until the coming years.
The same applies to the large-scale Green Tripartite for agriculture, which will also not deliver CO2 reductions for a number of years.
However, Torsten Gejl argues that there are challenges associated with the implementation of both areas.
The government has included in its climate agreements a review of the agreements to ensure that they deliver the promised reductions by 2030, but Torsten Gejl believes that this will happen too late.
- If we are to correct the individual initiatives because they are not achieving the anticipated CO2 reductions, we must first conduct analyses, negotiate, make new political agreements and implement them. We will never achieve this in such a short time.
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