MDG will remove every third flight by 2030 – NRK

There was outcry when the government and supporting parties Christian Democrats and the Liberals agreed on a passenger seat fee of 88 million in budget negotiations before Christmas last year.

However, according to the Green Party must be even harder patron to if fee should get people to refrain from flying.

in the current party program states that the party will “introduce an aircraft seat fee of £ 600 for flights of the main routes in southern Norway and abroad.” When the party put forward its proposal for a new party program Thursday, they have not quantified any sum.

– it must sharply increased, and may well be many times higher than it is today . How high, we need to figure out. The aim is that it should help to reduce traffic, says the head of the program committee in MDG, Ingrid Liland.

In addition, MDG halt construction of new runways.

NEW pROGRAM: Ingrid Liland has led the program work in MDG.

Photo: Åserud, Lise / NTB scanpix

instead, they will use the money to reduce the time it takes to travel by train between cities.

– We propose four hours between Oslo and Bergen and Oslo and Trondheim, and six hours between Oslo and Stavanger by 2025, says Leeland.

– Starter in erring

However, according to professor of strategy at the BI, Espen Andersen, start the party at the wrong end.

– they should not be against air traffic, or at least not opposed to traveling. What they should be welcomed is pollution, and where I think they can achieve a lot with better aircraft, new technology and better coordination of air traffic, he says and continues:

– It is a bit like an electric car. Many are opposed to traffic. But then they think that there is not traffic that is the problem, but that traffic pollutes, he said.

MDG believes Norway can cut 60 percent of current greenhouse gas emissions within 14 years if action proposed introduced , Dagsavisen.

In addition to expensive flights, they will partly halt all new developments on the Norwegian continental shelf. They will also increase the deposit bottle to five million and raise the price of meat. By 2020 they will phase out the sale of new cars that are powered by fossil fuels.

Ap: Dramatic

Today MDG only one representative in Parliament.

Party must come the flip-flop after the next election to get real influence through collaboration. One possible partner is the Labour Party.

But for Labor, which has previously been among flyseteavgiftens fiercest critics, there is little practical to increase it even more.

– We believe that there are other things that are more important to try first. What is the key to reducing emissions from air travel is to develop second and third generation biofuels, says transport policy spokesman of the Labor Eirik Sivertsen.

– Some of the instruments that MDG presents may seem very dramatic. We are agreed on the overarching objective of reducing the CO2 emissions. The differences between Labor and MDG is that we are more step by step, but they draw the strong measures immediately.