– It was also just missing, because we have sort of agreed, she says with reference to the understanding paper from 2019 between the government and the support parties.
– But I am glad that pressure is being put under the pressure, that it must of course be there, otherwise we will not reach the finish line.
– Now we must make sure that it also becomes ambitious, and that agriculture as well as others contribute to the green transition, because we must move forward, she says.
The government is currently trying to create a broad political majority for an agreement that will result in agriculture reducing emissions.
However, the negotiations are going very sluggishly and there is great impatience in both the blue bloc and among the government’s support parties in the red bloc.
The five parties in the blue bloc recently joined forces on an agricultural initiative, where they want DKK 750 million to be set aside for agriculture annually from 2023 until the green transition.
The proposal did not contain anything about a binding target for agricultural reductions.
In an interview with Politiken on Saturday, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) stated that “there must be a binding goal. Otherwise, agriculture will not come to fruition”.
She repeated the message on Saturday morning at the Social Democrats’ congress in Aalborg. However, the Prime Minister refuses to throw more money into an agreement for agriculture that the blue bloc would otherwise demand. The government has set aside around DKK 22 billion.
The Radicals are ready to look at adding funds to agriculture to ensure sufficiently large reductions.
– Maybe not at the level they (blue block, ed.) Set up, but we are open to both, says Sofie Carsten Nielsen.
The government has proposed that agriculture should reduce emissions somewhere between 40 and 60 percent.
According to Sofie Carsten Nielsen, the Radicals think that the government “has too low ambitions”. And that others will pay if agriculture does not contribute enough.
– Therefore, the goal must be at the top of what the Social Democrats have proposed, she says.
Source: The Nordic Page