Frode Pleym, Greenpeace – The climate crisis will not go away if we reduce our ambitions, it will get much worse. The problem in climate policy is that necessary measures are constantly postponed or watered down because it is difficult to change course. But the longer the politicians wait with measures such as monar, the more demanding, intrusive and expensive it will be for all of us. Arild Hermstad, MDG – The problem with this report is that the agencies skip over a number of important and obvious tools that are needed to reach our goals. Politically impossible solutions such as 50 kroner per liter for petrol are proposed rather than taking measures that are easy to implement and will have a big impact. Measures such as scrapping far more unnecessary motorway projects, introducing a cheap national travel card and securing more and more ambitious urban and rural growth agreements have not been considered. The government should order the agencies to start with this as quickly as possible. Ola Elvestuen, Liberal – The climate agreement Norway has concluded with the EU requires us to cut 50 per cent in the transport sector, so it must be done. The agreement is legally binding, so if these cuts are not taken in the transport sector, they must be taken in agriculture. It is unlikely that the Center Party and their voters will be supporters of it, so it is just a matter of rolling up the sleeves a little and coming up with strengthened tools and measures to reach the climate target. Measures to reach the climate target must be strengthened. We have the technology, we have the tools. It just has to be implemented. Eivind Berstad, Bellona – A 55 percent reduction in emissions in the transport sector is achievable by 2030. The report shows that it is possible, but very demanding. Then it can be tempting to push the climate targets rather than roll up your sleeves and put a plan and tools on the table. It is not the goal that is wrong with it, but the lack of political will to get there. In the transport sector, we must electrify everything that can be electrified, including parts of aviation. In practice, this means that most means of transport will run on electricity in 2030, or carbon-free fuel. It requires much more than a continuation of the current political whip and carrot, and it must appear in the state budget for 2024 so that it can be invested in machines in operation in 2030. Truls Gulowsen, Naturvernforbundet – It is of course not impossible to cut transport emissions , but you can’t do it just with technology and otherwise by still assuming an increase in the total amount of transport. By traveling shorter and slower, in addition to switching to emission-free technology, it is of course both possible and necessary to reach the goal. Sigrun Gjerløw Aasland, ZERO – It is demanding to reach the 2030 target, but not impossible. It is the policy that is the problem, not the goal. In the ZERO2030 report, we have concrete proposals for what needs to be done on the road, at sea and in the air. If we are to reach the target, we need, among other things, higher taxes on new diesel vehicles, better charging infrastructure, zero-emission zones, and purchase support for fleet renewal of ships and heavy vehicles. We must also bear in mind that there has actually been great progress in the transport sector, and at a faster pace than anyone had expected. This applies to cars, trucks, ferries and planes. It is as the UN’s climate panel says: the technology exists, so does the capital, and climate policy works. We just do too little of it. Anja Bakken Riise, The future in our hands – It is not surprising that the 2030 targets are out of reach. But that does not mean that the goals are worthless even when we see that it will be tough to reach them. We need goals to be ambitious, and if we get bad news along the way, we just have to turn up the ambitions. We must remember that 2030 is only a step on the way. We need honest analyzes like this, because it gives us the opportunity to discuss what measures are really necessary both before and after 2030. When we eventually want to meet the climate goals at the door, we can rather see it as a starting shot for a more open debate about what kind of new solutions we need to bring to the table in order to actually succeed with the sustainable changeover. First of all, it shows that we have not taken seriously the urgent need to downscale our transport scope more fundamentally than we have discussed up to now. I think we will have a more honest debate the closer we get to 2030, and that is good.
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The climate target is out of reach – news Vestland
