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Sweden’s 27-Year-Old Climate Minister Is Ready to Quit If Goals Are Missed
To live up to its climate promises, Sweden’s new government depends on the support of a far-right party that has called climate change a myth.
Romina Pourmokhtari delivers a speech at COP27 in November.
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The first country in the world to set a target of net zero by 2045, Sweden is already making plans to go carbon-negative. And with just over 100 days in office, the country’s climate and environment minister has vowed to quit if she’s unable to deliver on its bold climate goals.
“If we see that, for example, I'm not able, as the minister of climate and environment, to create the change that I want to see, I would leave the government and my party would leave the government,” Romina Pourmokhtari said on Bloomberg Green’s Zero podcast.