Export credits, for the transport of the coal to be stopped

the Swedish Export credits guarantee board, EKN has decided to stop providing support to the production, exploration and transportation of coal, as of the end of december of this year. This means that Sweden will become the first country to stop the aid shipments. In the past, France and the united kingdom decided to stop the export coal, not transport.

listed below:the decision came after the government in december, has launched a new export strategy which is a part of, was an end to export credit guarantees for fossil fuel companies, by the year 2022, that is, DN has been written about in the past.

The new strategy was an integral part of the januariavtalet based on an agreement between the social democrats, the Miljöparitet, the Liberal party and the Centre party.

a loan with favorable terms and conditions offered to the company for the benefit of the Swedish exporting businesses. In total, many billions of Swedish kronor every year, and the scheme is managed by the authority the Swedish Export credits guarantee board and the company, ab Svensk Exportkredit AB.

in the Past, the rules allowed the credit to be given to projects in the fossil fuels, the government wants to put a stop to that. Therefore, for now listed below in the mission to review the functioning of the national and international exportfinansieringssystemen to be able to contribute to a significant reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases.

as the World looks to Sweden as a klimatförebild and klimatomställningen the best of our export strategy. We can't build a fossil-fuel-free välfärdsnation at home and in other countries in a non-fossil. Now, we see that there will be an end to it, and I expect other countries to do the same thing, "says Isabella, "MP", klimatminister, and the deputy prime minister and minister for the ROTOR.

. In the year 2017, which went on to about 3 billion for the project, which is linked to the fossil fuels in 2018 and 2019, the sum of 500 million dollars a year. One of the most high-profile projects focused on gas production in russia, which garnered a lot of attention in the media last spring that the Swedish TV4's ”Cold facts” reviewed in the project, which was reported to result in the emission of 5.3 million tons, about one-tenth of the entire country's emissions.

the mission included, inter alia, that the granting of credit shall be in keeping with the paris agreement, and did not lead to lock-ins in the dependence on fossil fuels, impact of these proposals on the Swedish companies ' competitiveness, and how the international system can change in order to achieve the omställningseffekter. In addition, they suggest the loan to be more transparent.

most Recently, on 30 August, the group will report to the government.