EU to demand action plan over Sweden’s slow climate progress
Sweden will be asked to submit a corrective climate action plan after the European Commission found it was making insufficient progress towards its 2030 targets for transport, buildings, agriculture and waste.
Sweden is one of nine countries identified in the Commission’s new progress assessment, published on Monday. The finding concerns targets under the EU’s Effort Sharing Regulation.
The Commission says it will request plans to accelerate emissions-cutting measures and investment. Its spokesperson said letters would be sent and countries would then have three months to respond, followed by a Commission assessment over the next four months.
That clock runs from the letter, rather than Monday’s report. No date has been verified for Sweden receiving one.
The assessment puts renewed scrutiny on Swedish policy in sectors outside the main emissions-trading system. It does not announce an immediate fine or establish that Sweden has already missed a target whose deadline is 2030.
Across the EU, emissions in the effort-sharing sectors are projected to fall about 38.5 per cent by 2030 compared with 2005, short of the collective 40 per cent target. Those EU-wide figures are not Sweden’s individual result.
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