Sweden wants to fight climate nationalism

With an eye to the dissatisfying results of last year's Copenhagen climate conference, Sweden's Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren has declared war on "climate nationalism" in an article for the daily Dagens Nyheter and called on countries with high environmental ambitions to voice their concerns as a small group. The conservative daily Svenska Dagbladet couldn't agree more: "That doesn't mean international climate talks are out of the question. But as far as climate agreements are concerned it is entirely possible that these are better reached between countries with roughly similar initial positions. Incidentally this lesson can also be applied to other parts of the UN system. The climate question is far and away not the only matter in which countries like China and Venezuela have a disproportionately large influence."

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