EU climate plan sets stringent Norway – Adresseavisen

– It is now drafting lavutslippspolitikken really starts, says Helgesen.

Climate Plan which the Commission presented on Wednesday may have different requirements of different countries and the richest have to cut the most. Norway must as proposed cutting 40 percent of emissions compared with 2005 levels by 2030. This applies to non-quota subject sectors: transport, agriculture, waste and construction.

The Commission will open for limited trading between the EU and Norway and Iceland, as well as some other flexible solutions. It means that Norway must not take the whole cut within national borders,

– Must take a lot home

Helgesen will not specify how much of the cuts Norway shall take here.

– It’s not that we have unlimited flexibility. It opened to purchase quotas but it becomes clear ceilings and limitations, pinpoint Helgesen.

– We have to cut a lot at home, but it is too early to quantify it now, says Helgesen, which suggests that we first to answer this question in 2017.

He promises a preliminary assessment in the fall, but points out that Norway will negotiate with the EU in a year’s time.

Low carbon society

Labor believes that Norway must take the largest cuts here.

– It’s hard to say exactly the percentage how much of this we’re going to take home. But we must strive us to take far mostly here. It makes as we move to a low carbon society, says Terje Aasland who heads the party’s environment faction in Parliament.

SV believes Norway should refrain from using the EU’s flexible mechanisms, and requests the Government to provide a clarification:

– it’s still in the blue what Norwegian emissions will be in 2030. to reach our international obligations and ensure predictability for most people, need government urgently clarify which climate targets they govern by, said party secretary Kari Elisabeth Kaski.

For each sector

The Greens believe the target the EU set ambitious but necessary. Spokesperson Une Aina Bastholm expects the government all in next year’s budget puts forth objectives for each sector.

– There are ministers responsible for agriculture, transport, industry, energy and construction to be responsible for the emissions cut , not climate and environment minister, says she said.

she warns against using the chance EU grants to pay for emissions cuts are made in other countries, instead of cutting yourself. We must build up Norwegian expertise and eco-friendly technology that we can export, she says.

Liberal Trine Skei Grande believes Norway is well equipped to take the EU’s challenge, but points out that it is necessary to have a tax shift that makes it profitable to make green choices.

Greener transport

Both Bellona and Friends of the Earth points out that Norway must do much to achieve the objectives in the transport sector. This sector accounts for 31 per cent of Norwegian emissions. 60 percent of this coming from passenger cars.

– The European Commission asks us to practice on a large scale investment in cycle paths, transit and better recycling. In addition, car use substantially. This government must follow up so that more people have the opportunity to take environmentally friendly choices in their daily lives, says leader Lars Haltbrekken in Naturvernforbundet.

Transport Researcher Lasse Fridstrøm believes it is high time to discuss remedies.

– we have to get a massive replacement of vehicles to zero and low-emission vehicles, including goods vehicles, if we are to reduce emissions by 40 percent. It becomes very difficult, but not impossible, says researcher at the Institute of Transport Economics.