The Climate Council calls for a strategy from the government to achieve the 2035 target.

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Climate Council calls for government strategy to meet 2035 target

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The government should present a strategy for meeting the 2035 climate target, according to the Climate Council.

Climate Minister Samira Nawa (R) should draw up a plan for how the 2035 climate target can be achieved, the Climate Council believes. (Photo: © Sebastian Elias Uth, Ritzau Scanpix)

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Ritzau ( [email protected] ) 27 min. ago

There is a lack of a clear strategy for how the government will meet the 2035 climate target and reduce CO2 emissions by 85 percent.

That is the assessment of the Climate Council in a new memo that has reviewed the government's latest climate program.

- There is a need to develop new strategies and measures that can help support this. That is what we are calling for, says Bo Jellesmark Thorsen, deputy chair of the Climate Council.

The new government has declared itself the greenest ever in Denmark and announced that it will raise the 2035 climate target from 82 percent to at least 85 percent CO2 reduction compared to 1990 levels.

Currently, however, projections show that Denmark is on track to achieve an 80 percent reduction by 2035.

There is therefore a gap in the calculations that politicians have not yet presented a solution to.

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Need for new measures

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The Climate Council stresses that "new political measures" are needed if a reduction of at least 85 percent is to be achieved.

Specifically, politicians need to find an additional 4.3 million tonnes of CO2 to reduce if the gap from 80 to 85 percent is to be closed.

Although the government and the Folketing have yet to present a substantial package of climate measures to show the way to meeting the 2035 target, Climate Minister Samira Nawa (R) is already certain of her case.

In the government's climate program, she concluded that the path to meeting the 2035 target has already been "illustrated."

Normally, the term "illustrated" is used when the Climate Council assesses that sufficient well-documented climate measures have been presented for the path to a climate target to be considered likely.

That is not the case for the 2035 target, and the climate minister's use of the term therefore drew criticism from several green sources.

The Climate Council, however, will not itself address whether the minister has yet illustrated the path to the 2035 target, as she claims.

The council will only take a position on this in its status report, which will be published in February 2027.

RITZAU

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