Published 2024-03-27 19.33
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full screen chevron-right next The issue of fuel prices and climate emissions is an area where Agenda 2030 work can be useful, according to the government’s coordinator. Archive image.
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The government is basically stopping its work with Agenda 2030 on how Sweden will achieve the global sustainability goals. This is what Gabriel Wikström, national coordinator in the area, believes.
The conflict between fuel prices and climate emissions is an example where Agenda 2030 can be used to create acceptance for a sustainable transition, according to Gabriel Wikström (S), national coordinator for the government’s work with the agenda.
– Agenda 2030 is about how we connect sustainability work and not just look at one issue at a time, says Wikström.
The agenda consists of the UN’s 17 global goals to eradicate poverty and protect the planet.
Do not extend
Wikström, who previously served as Minister of Public Health, Healthcare and Sports, has had a four-year mandate that expires at the end of March. That the government does not extend or replace it – and at the same time made other reductions in Agenda 2030 work – means in practice that you are scrapping the work on the sustainability goals, Wikström believes.
He points out, among other things, that the government deleted the requirement for authorities to report on their work with Agenda 2030 and cut the budget for the follow-up of the goals.
– There has been a continuous reduction for a long time and now there is no national Agenda 2030 work left in practice, he says.
Lack of leadership
In his final report to climate and environment minister Romina Pourmokhtari (L), the government is criticized, among other things, for a lack of leadership in the transition to a more sustainable world.
– Instead of increasing government support to municipalities and other actors in their sustainability work, they are now going in the opposite direction. It will make it more difficult to gain broad popular acceptance.
Wikström’s mission has been to deepen and coordinate the work of various national actors with the sustainability goals. Last year, a global assessment showed that the world is not on track to meet even one of the goals.
“Gabriel Wikström’s appointment now expires, after he had the assignment he was given by the former S-led government for four years. The government currently sees no need to appoint a new national coordinator, but rather chooses to focus on more concrete measures in Sweden’s work towards the global goals,” says Pourmokhtari in a written comment to TT.