the Government’s klimaudspil among other things, ambition, that there must be a million green cars on the Danish roads by 2030. But if it happens, the state will miss revenue of around 50 billion crowns in the vehicle. And the money must be found elsewhere on the roads.
Therefore shall a commission with the former Dong director Anders Eldrup in the tip find out how the state can replace the loss of income.
It tells the finance minister Kristian Jensen (V).
– today we will have about 50 billion crowns into the vehicle, he says, and formulates the task of the commission:
– How do we handle this in a society with electric cars and hydrogen vehicles?
the Commission will not, however, free choice on all shelves, when the need to find new sources of revenue.
In its mission statement, the commission may read that the money as the starting point to be found in the field of transport.
There are mentioned as examples of models for toll roads and tolls as well as ‘opportunities for a shift to more technical based vehicle tax’.
– We can see that in many, many areas – energy, households, companies – we have done very much to reduce our CO2 emissions, says Kristian Jensen.
– In the field of transport we have, remains a big challenge in front of us. Therefore, we think that it is reasonable, that it is the transport sector, which is helping to finance a grønpark in the future.
According to Kristian Jensen is all the proposal from Anders Eldrup and his commission welcome. The commission must submit a report by the end of 2019, while its final work should be finished around the end of 2020.
Question: Will the government feel obliged to support the commission’s proposals, whatever they are?
– What is to come will be our starting point in the negotiations, so to start, says Kristian Jensen.
– What happens if there is no political majority for a sufficient amount to finance the government’s klimaudspil?
– So we must find other sources of funding. For we do not go back on the ambition to reach one million green cars in 2030.
the Commission comes out of Anders Eldrup to include five scientists from, among others, DTU and Copenhagen University and the four ‘experts’ from each ministry.
the Commission will consist of a president, five external experts and four experts from the ministries.
Here is an overview of the external members of the commission:
* Anders Eldrup, chairman of the lawyers ‘and Economists’ pension Fund. Former ceo of Dong – the current Ørsted and the permanent secretary in the ministry of Finance.
* Brita Bye, scientific director of Statistical sentralbyrå – Norwegian answer to Denmark’s Statstik.
* Otto Anker Nielsen, professor of transportmodellering, DTU.
* Ninette Pilegaard, senior researcher, DTU – Department of Transport.
* Tejs Vegge, professor at DTU Energy – Department of energy conversion and storage.
* Mogens Fosgerau, professor of transport economics, University of Copenhagen, denmark.
Sources: ministry of Finance, technical university of denmark, University of Copenhagen, Statistical sentralbyrå.
