SØNDERBORG: The climate agenda costs money, and the good will in municipal committees to generate effective climate and environmental solutions often runs into the state-set construction ceiling.
This became clear during a so-called political assembly hall at the KL climate summit in Sønderborg, where committee chairs and members from the technical, environmental and climate areas brought examples of state barriers to the table for the KL Climate and Environmental Committee.
There was enough to address: That there is still no solution to agricultural compensation for protected areas that are to be included in low-lying projects, as a committee chair from a Jutland rural municipality pointed out. Or that pipes for surplus heat must not be extended sufficiently to smaller urban communities, as a politician from a Zealand municipality argued.
Several people mentioned the construction ceiling, which prevents investments that will really be felt:
- If we are going to start with energy renovation in municipal buildings, it requires prioritizing the area in the municipal agreements - for example, that they can be carried out without the construction ceiling, said a North Zealand politician and was supported by a Zealand colleague, who also gave the example of transporting surplus heat over longer distances, which gave rise to local tax challenges.
A committee chairman from Funen gave an example of being forced to an inferior environmental solution - specifically having to line an existing sewer line instead of establishing a newer and better one - because of the construction ceiling.
Other issues from the municipalities that KL officials could take note of during the political community center was:
- Help us work with CO2-price on purchases - without hassle.
- Help us with good dialogue with agriculture about extracting low-lying soil.
- It is still too much of a hassle to set up companies for solar energy.
- Let us be able to borrow from KommuneKredit for energy renovation.
- More government acceptance of district heating, "cold district heating" and energy communities.
- Make it easier to relocate homes near energy plants.
- Get the expansion of the electricity grid underway. It is going too slowly.
- Let us demand that high-energy companies be located where energy is available.
- Drop the stop-and-go policy in the district heating pool. Just fill it up now.
- Let consumers pay higher rates for sewage separation sooner.
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