Finance Minister Nicolai Wammen (S) regrets that the climate crisis is not mentioned verbatim in the foreword to the booklet of budget proposals that the government has just presented. In the foreword, which Nicolai Wammen is the sender of, the corona epidemic, the war in Ukraine, the long waiting times in hospitals are mentioned. But not the climate crisis.
- In what I have said here, I have mentioned the climate crisis at least ten times, and if it is not in the foreword, then it is an oversight, he says.
The Unity List and the Alternative have been quick to criticize that there is no new money for climate in the budget proposal.
- There is not a single new krone for the climate. That it can even be done three days after we have read the UN's climate panel's horror report is actually beyond my comprehension. It is a huge failure of our future, says the Red and Greens' finance spokesman, Pelle Dragsted.
Climate only mentioned once
In the government's brochure on the budget bill, climate is only mentioned once. It is on page five.
- We have one of the world's most ambitious climate goals, and there is a need to accelerate the green transition, it is stated in connection with a list of Denmark's challenges in the coming years.
Nicolai Wammen makes it clear that this is not an expression that the current government does not take the climate crisis seriously.
- The long story is that the climate crisis is a huge priority for this government - also for me as Minister of Finance, says Nicolai Wammen.
- And if you look at the time when I have been Minister of Finance, you will see that a number of the major climate agreements that have been concluded, and which have helped to move this country forward, were made with me at the head of the table as Minister of Finance.
- If there is a page where it is not stated clearly enough, I apologize, but in the presentation I gave here today, I mentioned it several times, and I hope you have noticed that too, he says to a journalist at the press conference.
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