Climate message is shockingly weak
The climate crisis will not be solved with nice words and quota buying. It is solved with tough choices and real readjustment.
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The new Climate Change Message to the Government which was submitted on Thursday, is shockingly weak. It is almost devoid of new climate measures, and is in effect a weakening of Norwegian climate targets.
The promise from Climate Minister Andreas Bjelland Eriksen (AP) is that current policies should only be made “work”, not reinforced.
The Minister for Climate Change believes that current policy provides for a 47 per cent cut in 2035, and believes that the rest of the climate commitments should be taken via quota purchases.
Then he's not doing his job. He gives in the ground Ola Svenneby full review. The leader of the Young Conservatives called in March for climate action to be paused in order to prioritise the Armed Forces.
Through Paris Agreement Norway has committed to increasing its ambitions for each new climate target. But the government doesn't. Instead, they say the measures to reach the 2035 target “need to be studied and decided later.”
It's like saying you're going to run a marathon -- without exercising.
Andreas Bjelland Eriksen does not want to cut in Norway; he would rather reach climate targets by buying climate allowances from abroad. But that grip It could cost $21 billion., without Norwegian industry being able to reap the benefits of it.
It's giving away the jobs of the future to other countries. The time for cutting in other countries is past anyway.
By 2050, Norway will be a low-emission society. If the government is still behind that target, it must mean steep and fierce cuts in the years after 2035. It makes the transition difficult and uncomfortable.
The message is also poor craftsmanship on the part of the minister. Making a climate target for 2035, but at the same time saying that how it will be reached must be studied later, is frivolous.
It's not a plan, it's a postponement.
The climate crisis will not be solved with nice words and quota buying. It is solved with honest measures, tough choices and real readjustment. Everything else is self-deception.
