Negotiations on how Denmark will achieve the climate goals that have been set are in full swing. But one of the main characters has been put out of the game indefinitely.
Lars Aagaard (M), who is the Minister of Climate, Energy and Utilities, has been admitted to the hospital with "severe back pain". He writes this himself in a post on LinkedIn.
- It's a damn shame, because there is so much to tackle. Not least because we are working hard in the green tripartite and with many other green issues.
- But a pain that hits like a sledgehammer in the spine - you can feel it! - he writes in the post.
Lars Aagaard has not yet received a diagnosis and therefore does not know how long he will be hospitalized.
- I hope to be up and running as soon as possible, and when the doctors recommend it, he writes.
Lars Aagaard is one of the five ministers representing the government in the negotiations on the so-called green tripartite, which should result in an agreement that reduces agriculture's CO2 emissions in the coming years.
The other parties are agriculture, trade unions, municipalities and environmental organizations. The negotiations are led by the former Speaker of the Danish Parliament Henrik Dam Kristensen. The negotiations began in January, and the plan is to have a proposal ready before the end of this month.
According to Berlingske, one of the elements in the proposal is a land fund of up to 50 billion kroner. DKK, which will be used to purchase and convert agricultural land for, among other things, afforestation. The parties must also decide how the individual farm's CO2 emissions should be taxed. An expert committee has presented three proposals for how a tax can be put together.
The three models work with a CO2 tax of between DKK 125 and DKK 750 per ton of greenhouse gas. The higher the tax, the more jobs it will cost in agriculture and related industries, according to the calculations.
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