– If it takes 50 or 100 years to reach the climate goals, then it will. The climate targets crush values and wealth in Norway and the West, rather send the money to Africa and India, then we will get climate cuts, says Ola Borten Moe to news. Tough targets The starting point for Borten Moe’s clear appeal to the government is that the government has set itself a separate climate target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 per cent compared to 1990. This must happen by 2030. That is, in six years. When we write February 2024, the conclusion is that we have cut 4.6 per cent. Miles away from the goal. So to reach the target, the government will have to cut around 7.3 per cent every single year. The government thus has two climate targets, both of which state that Norway must cut 55 per cent. One is through the UN where Norway can use quotas. The second is called the “Transformation target” in the Hurdal platform. These goals are much more ambitious than the goals Norway has submitted to the UN. Because if Norway fails to achieve the UN targets together with the EU, they open the way for you to buy quotas from other countries. The government’s own goals do not. – The climate targets are completely unrealistic, says Borten Moe, and substantiates with a recent example. – We cannot adopt technology that does not exist, just look at the electric buses in Oslo, now the bus does not run when it is cold. The green shift is madness put into a system, he says to his own government. Norway’s climate target Norway has notified the UN that we will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% compared to 1990 levels. As of today, Norway has cut 4.6% compared to 1990. As of today, Norway emits 48.9 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents. By 2030, the figure should be 23.1 million tonnes of CO2. Reacts Climate and Environment Minister Andreas Bjelland Eriksen believes Borten Moe’s pessimism is a dead end. – Ola Borten Moe is wrong! It is possible to reach the climate goals, he told Dagbladet this week. – Does Ola Borten Moe think that Norway should not follow up on the obligations in the Paris Agreement? The government shows in the Green Book how we are going to achieve the targets of cutting 55 per cent by 2030. We have a plan that our professionals already say is working. Why shouldn’t Norway do it? Until this summer, Ola Borten Moe was minister for research and higher education and deputy leader of the Center Party, but resigned from both roles and announced that he would not stand for re-election to the Storting either, after trading shares as a minister.
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