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– We did not achieve climate targets with today’s instruments, Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre tells Dagbladet.
He himself has led the work on the draft of a new party program, which will be presented in full on Friday. Dagbladet has previewed the most important elements of what the Labor Party’s new climate policy will be.
– We must use the state more actively in the restructuring that is coming, and ensure that it is fair. We must take more account of the distribution profile in climate policy. The polluter pays principle should be taken as a basis and those with the highest ability to pay should contribute more than today, says the Labor leader.
Dissent
The Labor Party’s comprehensive climate program contains only one dissent. On the question of where the edge of the ice should go, Støre failed to bring the committee together.
A majority of 13 are behind the current APS policy, while a minority of five will push the edge of the ice further south. In effect, it will put an end to oil activities in a larger area than there is currently a political majority.
AUF Leader: Understanding Reactions
– The areas around the edge of the ice are so vulnerable that we must pay special attention here. These are areas where we have to let the interests of the environment and other industries take precedence over oil and gas extraction, AUF leader Ina Libak tells Dagbladet.
She is part of the minority behind the dissent who may win with a rematch on the edge of the ice at the national gathering this spring.
In practice, the dispute revolves around whether the Labor Party should stick to a northern border where there is an average of 15% sea ice on April days, or if the limit should be set at 0.5% frequency. of ice according to professional recommendations.
Rate increase
On the climate program, the Labor Party advocates a sharp increase in the CO₂ tax, more specifically by 10 percent every year until 2030.
Exceptions are made for gasoline and diesel, where the CO₂ tax will be increased by 5 percent per year until 2025. In addition, a separate plastic tax will be introduced.
– More expensive gasoline and diesel. Won’t it harshly affect ordinary households, who can’t necessarily afford to buy an electric car?
– We will address this in our general tax and duty plan, to be released later this fall. There we will take compensatory measures that ensure that all people with ordinary income in general do better than today, Støre promises.
LO Secretary Are Tomasgard has represented the union movement at work on the climate program. You are not concerned that increased CO taxes will jeopardize jobs.
Announces a generational settlement against Jonas
– We must develop the industry in a green direction, otherwise we will have no industry left. If companies reduce emissions and emit less CO₂, it will also be less to pay, says Tomasgard.
Fellowship of destiny
At the party’s office in Youngstorget, Jonas Gahr Støre repeats what he said at the national meeting when he was elected party leader in 2014: Climate and environment must be the framework for all issues.
Ask Frp to keep his fingers off the plate.
He believes the question defines a community of destiny between generations and between the youth on climate strike and the industrial workers who fear for their jobs.
– We will develop and not liquidate the oil and gas industry. By investing in new industries and developing new technologies, with the help of the state, we will keep going in the supplier industry while necessarily falling into oil and gas. We will focus on offshore wind, electrification, carbon capture, hydrogen and the offshore industries, says Støre and continues:
– We will achieve both: securing jobs and reducing emissions.
Are Tomasgard at LO believes that the nation’s industrial workers must realize that they have more in common with young people who go to school than they think.
– Young people will change the markets according to what they demand, and the industry must adapt to that. No industrial enterprise develops by stopping. And we will not reach the goal of a green transition without bringing the industry with us, he says.
I’m not sure these are together
No end date
– Young people worry about saving the climate, but also about the fact that there will be work for them when they are older. And our party program must respond to that, says AUF leader Ina Libak.
However, the main desire of the youth party to set an end date for oil and gas activities is not part of the program. Tomasgard in LO is happy about that. “Symbolic politics,” he calls it.
– We do not agree on how long we will operate with oil and gas, but setting that end date is not the most important thing now, says Libak, as an explanation of why he does not disagree on this point.
– It is much more important to start reducing greenhouse gases, he says.
A key element in the Labor Party’s climate plan is the strict goal of reducing 55 percent of measured Norwegian emissions by 1990 by 2030. This commitment applies to the entire economy and all sectors and greenhouse gases.
Here are other key points:
Introduce specific targets for emission reductions for each individual sector and industry in Norway.
• Increase support for carbon capture, offshore wind, hydrogen, and green transportation, among other things, through a tax reform that makes investing in climate-friendly industries more attractive.
• Make greater use of state property to promote climate and nature goals and emphasize climate and nature considerations more strongly in public procurement.
• Strengthen the requirements for waste management, so that waste is classified, processed and reused as raw material.
• Facilitate the capture and storage of CO₂ in larger incineration plants.
• Facilitate more plastics recycling facilities in Norway and ensure that all packaging used in Norway is suitable for reuse or recycling by 2030.
• Introduce a tax on fossil plastics, introduce a plastics monitoring and producer responsibility scheme and recycle half of the plastic packaging in Norway by 2025.
