What does the new coalition agreement mean for climate? The government wants to empower households and communities, businesses and cooperatives and villages and cities to make a sustainable transition. They want to do this by:

• The 2030 target in the Climate Act will be tightened to at least 55% CO2 reduction. By 2035, it should be 70% and 80% by 2040.
• The implementation power will be strengthened and there will be a generation test.
• There will be a €35bn climate and transition fund for the next 10 years, in addition to the current SDE++ subsidy.
• Procedures for the realisation of new large-scale energy infrastructure projects (of national importance) are accelerated.
• Climate policy will be recalibrated based on the expected impacts on CO2 emissions and affordability for households and SMEs.
• Training or retraining/upskilling sufficient skilled workers.

The coalition pins its hopes on building 2 nuclear power plants to make the Netherlands CO2 neutral. It allocates 5 billion to carry out feasibility studies. For that budget, a lot of wind and solar farms can be realised, which will also produce much faster results, at lower prices.

Read here. the entire coalition agreement.

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Source: cabinet formation2021