Sweden: EU presidency without climate am • Table.Briefings

For the new Swedish government, climate policy is not a priority back home, but it is in the EU. The government leans on far-right climate change deniers in parliament. Great efforts are not to be expected. But the green transformation in the country and the EU continues.

It will be a frosty welcome for the EU Commission: To mark the start of the Swedish Council Presidency, the government of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson will receive the entire Commission in the town of Kiruna in the far north on Jan. 12 and 13. This is where Europe’s largest iron ore deposits are located. And here, thanks to stricter EU climate legislation, a gigantic industrial transformation is taking place driven by climate policy.

Sweden: EU presidency without climate ambition

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