Engelsk titel: Sweden as a showcase for new technology on the way towards the fossil-free society
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Författare:
Axelsson, Svante
Email: svante.axelsson@regeringskanseliet.se
Språk: Swe
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UI-nummer: 19100126
Sammanfattning
To limit global warming to well below 2 degrees it takes a rapid mitigation of green house gas emissions. According to the IPCC we need to reach net
zero emissions by 2050. By then we also have to capture and store carbon dioxide at a large scale. Even if our possibilities to reach the target may seem bleak at a first sight we can now see a lot of trends and tendencies that provides hope.
In Sweden there is at large a consensus about the common climate targets. Seven of eight political parties in parliament stand behind an agreement on a
climate framework and cities and municipalities are pushing ahead with even more ambitious targets than the government. In this article, the coordinator
for the governmental initiative Fossil Free Sweden, gives an overview of the work that is already carried out to make Sweden one of the first fossil free
welfare nations in the world. Climate policy has progressed from being an environmental issue to concern business and export policies, and this brings hope. The vision is to make Sweden a permanent world exhibition for new technology so that more countries can discover the path to fossil free development.