In its first annual status report, the Danish Council on Climate Change said new laws, inter-party agreements and initiatives announced since the country’s climate law came into effect last June would reduce emissions by the equivalent of 7.2m tonnes of CO2 by 2030, which is only enough to reduce Denmark’s emissions by 54% compared with 1990 levels. But Denmark’s climate minister, Dan Jørgensen, told the state broadcaster DR he welcomed the “good advice and recommendations” and believed the government had been “busy”. “Obviously, we have less than 10 years to meet this goal, but fortunately we’ve reached over a third of the way,” he said. “There are only nine years left until 2030, so there’s a sense of urgency clearly present in the report,” he said. “The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that at some points it is possible to significantly change our routines and habitual behaviour,” the report reads.

Source: The Guardian February 28, 2021 14:58 UTC