Corporate reporting on sustainability and diversity

The plan places responsibility for emissions on industry and the political system, not on individual consumers, and requires that politics demand companies' transition. It furthermore wants greater societal insight into companies and defends the climate and environmental regulations driven through within the EU. Demands on sustainability reporting in the entire value chain, including the financial sector, and support to smaller companies thereby lie in line with the plan.

• political demands on industry's transitiondecisive»Politiken kan och måste ställa krav på att industrin ställer om och hjälpa företagen med ett massivt grönt investeringsprogram och satsningar på ny teknik« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Politics can and must demand that industry transitions and help companies with a massive green investment programme and investments in new technology”
• responsibility not with individual consumers»Även om vi alla försöker minska vår klimatpåverkan så är det tydligt att det inte är allas vår individuella sopsortering eller bilanvändning som kommer att påverka framtiden mest.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Even though we all try to reduce our climate impact, it is clear that it is not everyone's individual rubbish sorting or car use that will most affect the future.”
• insight into companies»Vi vill gå mot en större samhällelig insyn« (party programme ↗)“We want to move toward greater societal insight”
• defend EU's environmental regulations»utbyte mellan länder och vissa klimat- och miljöregleringar.« (party programme ↗)“exchange between countries and certain climate and environmental regulations.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan makes industry's climate transition a state responsibility and wants Sweden to push for higher climate commitments in the EU, which supports the counter-proposal's requirement for a broader EU framework that encompasses entire value chains. The plan moreover explicitly rejects placing the responsibility for emissions on the individual. Support for small and medium-sized enterprises' sustainability reporting follows from the commitment that the state should facilitate the transition through investments.

• advocacy in the EU for climatedecisive»Sverige ska vara en stark kraft i FN och EU för att världens länder ska öka sina åtaganden för att göra verklighet av Parisavtalets ambitioner.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Sweden should be a strong force in the UN and EU so that the world's countries increase their commitments to make the Paris Agreement's ambitions a reality.”
• state support for industry's transition»Genom statliga investeringar kan vi öka takten i industrins omställning och underlätta ett klimatsmart liv.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Through state investments, we can increase the pace of industry's transition and facilitate a climate-smart life.”
• do not blame individual consumers»Klimatkrisen kan aldrig lösas med att skuldbelägga människor som behöver ta bilen till affären« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The climate crisis can never be solved by blaming people who need to drive to the store”
• the polluter pays»Principen om att förorenaren betalar tillämpas fullt ut.« (party programme ↗)“The polluter pays principle is applied in full.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan states that companies of all sizes need clear rules for the transition to sustainability and that the EU should be the leading force in climate work. It also wants to regulate the financial sector so that capital is directed towards sustainability. A broadened EU regulation framework for entire supply chains including the financial sector, with support for smaller companies, follows directly from these commitments.

• clear rules for sustainabilitydecisive»tydliga spelregler för att potentialen i näringslivets omställning till hållbarhet« (party programme ↗)“clear rules so that the potential in business's transition to sustainability”
• EU leads climate work»EU ska vara den ledande kraften i det globala klimatarbetet« (party programme ↗)“The EU should be the leading force in global climate work”
• regulated financial sector»Genom tydlig reglering, rättvisa skatter och en ansvarsfull fördelningspolitik« (party programme ↗)“Through clear regulation, fair taxes and responsible distribution policy”
• responsibility for consumption emissions»införa klimattullar på varor från länder utanför EU.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“introduce climate tariffs on goods from countries outside the EU.”

The plan's central commitment in the business area is to clean up regulatory red tape and reduce regulatory complexity, especially for small businesses. An EU framework covering entire value chains and all businesses and sectors instead imposes a new reporting burden on precisely the small businesses the plan wants to relieve, and the plan wants the EU to do fewer things but do them better. Climate ambition should be achieved with effective policy instruments, not with expensive and complicated regulations.

• reduced regulatory complexity for businessdecisive»Rensa upp i regelträsket för entreprenörer, stora som små. Vi vill införa en ny och förenklad företagsform för mikroföretag, så att fler ska våga testa att driva företag.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Clean up the regulatory red tape for entrepreneurs, large and small. We want to introduce a new and simplified business form for microenterprises, so that more people dare to try running a business.”
• climate benefit without regulatory red tape»Klimatet kan inte vänta på dyra och krångliga regelverk.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The climate cannot wait for expensive and complicated regulations.”
• narrower but sharper EU»EU måste bli smalare, men vassare, göra färre saker men göra dem bättre.« (party programme ↗)“The EU must become narrower but sharper, do fewer things but do them better.”
• better conditions for small businesses»Småföretagen är motorer för jobb, integration och möjligheter. Vi ska skapa bättre förutsättningar för dem att lyckas, med lägre skatt, mindre regelkrångel och en starkare arbetslinje.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Small businesses are engines for jobs, integration and opportunities. We should create better conditions for them to succeed, with lower taxes, less regulatory red tape and a stronger work ethic.”

The plan wants to reduce the regulatory burden for small businesses and builds climate policy on general, technology-neutral instruments such as carbon tax and emissions trading instead of subsidies and symbolic measures. An expanded EU regulatory framework covering all businesses and sectors, combined with targeted support, thus goes against the plan's line.

• reduced regulatory burden for small businessesdecisive»Regelbördan för små företag ska minska, genom ansträngningar på både kommunal, statlig« (party programme ↗)“The regulatory burden for small businesses shall decrease, through efforts at municipal, state”
• instruments before subsidies»Därför är vi för riktiga klimatskatter i stället för att göra klimatpolitiken till en tävling i högst bidrag och flest symbolskatter.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Therefore, we are for real climate taxes instead of making climate policy into a competition in most subsidies and most symbolic taxes.”
• technology-neutral economic instruments»Generella och teknikneutrala ekonomiska styrmedel, såsom« (party programme ↗)“General and technology-neutral economic instruments, such as”
• distance from symbolic politics»Liberal miljöpolitik tar avstånd från symbolpolitik« (party programme ↗)“Liberal environmental policy takes distance from symbolic politics”

The plan favours business policy with general means and explicitly rejects direct company subsidies, which speaks against targeted support for small and medium-sized enterprises' sustainability reporting. It also requires that bureaucracy and complicated rules be counteracted and that new laws be tested from a small-business perspective, which speaks against an expanded EU framework that covers entire value chains and all companies. The counter-proposal's requirement therefore goes against the plan's line.

• no direct company subsidiesdecisive»Direkta företagssubventioner avvisas.« (party programme ↗)“Direct company subsidies are rejected.”
• small-business perspective on new laws»Tillkommande lagar bör prövas ur ett småföretagarperspektiv.« (party programme ↗)“New laws should be tested from a small-business perspective.”
• reduced regulatory burden»Byråkrati och krångliga regler ska motverkas.« (party programme ↗)“Bureaucracy and complicated rules shall be counteracted.”
• general business policy»Näringspolitiken ska bedrivas med generella medel« (party programme ↗)“Business policy shall be conducted with general means”

The plan binds the party to significantly reduce companies' regulatory burden and, as a main rule, to implement EU regulations at minimum level. The counter-proposal's demand for an expanded EU regulatory framework for sustainability reporting that covers entire value chains and all sectors goes in the exact opposite direction. Targeted state support for small and medium-sized enterprises is not the simplification the plan promises either.

• EU rules at minimum leveldecisive»Minska regelkrånglet och onödig byråkrati, bland annat genom att motverka överimplementering i Sverige av EU-beslut – som huvudregel ska EU-direktiv genomföras på miniminivå« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Reduce red tape and unnecessary bureaucracy, including by preventing over-implementation in Sweden of EU decisions - as a main rule EU directives should be implemented at minimum level”
• reduced administrative burden»Ta bort en tredjedel av företagens administrationskostnader och en tredjedel av regelkrånglet« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Remove one third of companies' administration costs and one third of red tape”
• bureaucracy hinders growth»Men höga skatter, krångliga tillståndsprocesser och byråkrati sätter käppar i hjulet för innovation och tillväxt.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“But high taxes, complicated permit processes and bureaucracy put obstacles in the way of innovation and growth.”
• effective, not symbolic climate policy»Klimatpolitiken får aldrig reduceras till dyrbar symbolpolitik eller snäv klimatnationalism.« (party programme ↗)“Climate policy must never be reduced to expensive symbolic politics or narrow climate nationalism.”

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The counter-proposal wants to expand sustainability reporting within the EU to entire value chains and all companies and sectors. The election manifesto explicitly warns that stricter requirements in Sweden and the EU than in the rest of the world harm Swedish industries and produce globally counterproductive results, and requires regulatory simplification and eased administrative burden for smaller businesses. Support for small and medium-sized enterprises weighs less than the expanded regulatory burden.

• avoid competitiveness-damaging special requirementsdecisive»Strängare miljö- och utsläppskrav i Sverige jämfört med i omvärlden riskerar ofta att slå ut svenska näringar och få globalt kontraproduktiva resultat när det kommer till de mål kraven syftar till att uppnå.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Stricter environmental and emissions requirements in Sweden compared to the rest of the world risk often harming Swedish industries and producing globally counterproductive results when it comes to the goals the requirements aim to achieve.”
• reduced administrative burden»Verka för regelförenkling och avlasta småföretagens administrativa börda« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Work for regulatory simplification and ease small businesses' administrative burden”
• stop symbolic politics against business»Stoppa symbolpolitik som går ut över möjligheten att bedriva industri och näring« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Stop symbolic politics that harms the possibility to conduct industry and business”
• cost-effective regulatory frameworks»Nya regler ska vara kostnadseffektiva och befintliga regler behöver ses över.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“New rules shall be cost-effective and existing rules need to be reviewed.”