Sweden, an Early Climate Leader, Is Retreating From Its Environmental Commitments, Part of an EU Trend | As the U.S. abandons international climate agreements, the EU is hesitating to lead. A once-admired Nordic nation’s backtracking on its climate goals offers clues as to why.

Sweden, an Early Climate Leader, Is Retreating From Its Environmental Commitments, Part of an EU Trend



by silence7

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  2. As a Swede, we’re sorry.. We have a problem, right wing idiots got into our government and started wrecking things. Someone please call anticimex?..

  3. This will be intresting times, renewables being the cheaper technology over big Oil, land transport in cars making up alone for 50% of worldwide oil consumption, but electric cars becoming cheaper and cheaper. So you will have right wing idiots worldwide turning back time in words, while the better technology gets a constant stronger foothold.

    So in the future you will sit in your electric enjoying the ride, paying 2 euro for 100 km while that right wing with a flag tattooed in his face sits next to you in the V8 dodge ram and pays 20 euro.

    I am excited for how long the weird will be able to uphold their weirdness.

  4. >It also means that Sweden risks being in violation of a range of EU agreements, including the union’s
    Nature Restoration Law, Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) Regulation. LULUCF is part of the EU’s Climate and Energy Framework, which demands a much higher uptake of carbon.

    … but not only Sweden:

    >Wurzel developed the concept of an ambitious “green sextet” of nations driving the EU’s climate agenda, but while following ongoing negotiations and statements, he saw five of those countries—Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Finland and Austria—all appear to reduce their once-bold climate policies. All of these countries have also shifted to the political right.

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    …but there’s an exception: 🇩🇰

    >Only *Denmark, a leader in offshore wind, largely seems to be maintaining its aspirations to cut emissions and fight climate change* [my emphasis], he said.

    Maybe there’s some hope, as Denmark has the leadership for EU for the rest of the year.

  5. >Since the country’s general elections in 2022, Sweden has taken distinct steps away from its environmental legacy. A conservative coalition, supported by the far-right Sweden Democrats, focused their campaign on cheap fuel and public safety. In office, they have prioritized building up the military, being tough on crime and sharply reducing immigration. Funding for climate action has[ plummeted](https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/environment/environmental-accounts-and-sustainable-development/system-of-environmental-and-economic-accounts/pong/statistical-news/environmentally-motivated-subsidies-2024/).

  6. A disgraceful development as practically every other dimension Sweden is changing in. Market fundamentalists put in power by far right populists spell disaster wherever they spread.

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