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The Labor Party’s energy and environmental policy spokesman Espen Barth Eide says the plan is too weak both in terms of targets and instruments.
– I am surprised that one does not reach the same level of ambition as the EU and most other industrialized countries, he says.
Eide is joined by Une Bastholm, party leader in the Green Party, who is also criticizing the government for not acting fast enough.
– For me, this is a stroke of luck for the government’s climate credibility. The measures are too few, the ambition too low, and the plan is too late and unfunded. Big emissions sectors like oil aren’t even included, he says.
You think you lack a district perspective
– We need a close interaction between the state and the market so that this contributes to the quick cuts and ensures that we create new good jobs and good lives in this change, says Espen Barth Eide.
Photo: Ole Berg-rest / NTB
Several parties also believe that the report does not focus enough on the people of the districts.
– This is a climate plan that gives more to Frogner than Finnmark, says Rødt leader Bjørnar Moxnes.
He says the consequence of the report is that the government operates several wind power plants and a highway in the vulnerable Norwegian wilderness.
– It is absurd that this plan does not say anything about stopping road construction. Rødt will prioritize safe roads and landslide protection over new major highways, focusing on buses, trains, ships, and charging infrastructure across the country, not the benefits of electric vehicles for the wealthy in big cities, says the leader of Rødt.
MDG-Bastholm also criticizes the government for the great development of highways and the increase in public transport in recent years. Erna Solberg has been prime minister for more than seven years, and only now, just before they run for re-election, will there be a plan, she says.
Espen Barth Eide says the Labor Party is also concerned that we take into account the distributional effect and ensure that climate change is socially and geographically fair.
Don’t believe in municipal electric cars
– It is too tame and slow a plan. This is just a climate plan to get us halfway there, says SV leader Audun Lysbakken.
Photo: Terje Pedersen
Storting representative Sandra Borch of the Center Party believes the climate report shifts the costs to the business community and to people living in the districts.
– There are many requests and measures to be implemented, but there are no resources or funds to accompany it. I’m afraid people in particular districts will have to pay for this, he says.
Now the government is saying that the overall tax level will not increase and that increased costs as a result of the CO av tax, among other things, will be offset. Isn’t there insurance also for the business community in the districts?
– I expected the government to give much clearer signals about what it could be. Here, for example, all new public cars in municipalities are required to have zero emissions by 2022. In my opinion, this is completely unrealistic.
– You want a broad agreement
– We must have a responsible climate policy that reduces emissions and at the same time contributes to creating new jobs in Norway. If the government is interested in it, it can always discuss it with us, says Jon Georg Dale (Frp).
Photo: Vidar Ruud / NTB
SV leader Audun Lysbakken says a broad climate agreement is needed, which he believes will “save” the message.
He fears that the Progress Party will weaken the measures.
– The government’s plan will be even worse if Rotevatn now negotiates only with Frp. The only thing that can save this plan is a broad climate deal, says Lysbakken.
FRP’s energy and environmental policy spokesperson, Jan Georg Dale, says the most important thing is the content of the policy.
– We cannot spray symbols on climate policy and we believe that we will obtain a large majority with it. We must have a responsible climate policy that reduces emissions and at the same time helps us create new jobs in Norway. If the government is interested in it, they can always discuss it with us, says Dale.
Dale fears that some of the measures the government will take will go beyond Norwegian jobs.
– We cannot apply policies that reduce Norwegian emissions if we increase global ones. If we do this at the same time that it goes beyond Norwegian jobs, we will be completely wrong, he says.
Espen Barth Eide says the Labor Party has been a supporter of the climate deal and has called for it for several years.
– The important thing is that we are ambitious enough, clear enough, concrete enough. And if we can contribute to a broad agreement on a very good plan, we will be happy to do so. But we don’t want a hard commitment, says Eide.
