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Sweden: Stick to the stop for petrol cars after 2035

by AI | 18.Dec 2024 | Europe in brief AI

Sweden stands firm when major countries within the car industry want to change the EU’s decision not to allow new petrol cars on the market after 2035.

Swedish climate and environment minister Romina Pourmokhtari. Photo: Mickan Mörk/TT

Brussels – Heavyweights in the automobile industry such as Italy, Czech Republic, and Slovakia are pushing to alter the EU’s decision not to allow new gasoline cars on the market after 2035, along with large parts of the European Parliament’s conservative parties.

Not good, thinks Sweden’s Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari.

“I am very concerned about this development. We are keeping a close watch on it, and we will do everything we can to ensure this strong legislation does not change course,” she says after an EU Environment Ministers meeting in Brussels on Tuesday.

At the meeting, the climate target for 2040 was also discussed, which the European Commission wants to set at a 90 percent reduction compared to 1990 emissions. Sweden is strongly emphasizing the importance that all EU countries should then be climate neutral by 2050 and that the solution should not allow some to piggyback on others.

“This is a very important issue: to shift from all the focus on what target level we have, to actually starting to talk about what works and how we can expand the solutions that actually have an effect,” says Pourmokhtari.

(December 17)