Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Löfven: The forest can provide 25,000 new jobs – Aftonbladet

Löfven: The forest can provide 25,000 new jobs – Aftonbladet

Stefan Löfvens search of new job goes on.

Today came the next proposal whereby a billion investment in the forest sector – which will provide 25,000 jobs by 2020.

– The forest is our green gold, says S leader.

The Social Democrats have set a goal for Sweden to have the EU lowest unemployment for 2020 Now the picture of how Stefan Löfven intend to get there to brighten more and more.

In recent weeks, a series of job actions presented. Everything from 25,000 trainee jobs in health care, 6000 additional posts in the school for staff currently employed in Phase 3, a new venture in the industry and today thus new jobs in the forest industry in the form of, among other things, research for new biofuels and biochemicals.

“accept the challenge”

According to Stefan Löfven, the forest industry itself has calculated that forests if properly used could provide between 11,000 and 25,000 new jobs.

– We assume that challenge. Forests are a hugely important asset for us. This is green gold which we have been blessed with here in Sweden, let’s use it, says S leader.

– When we see that paper production goes down so the idea is, what do we do instead to create new jobs? Where we believe that biofuels are an important part. We need to drive our cars on the lot, a lot more environmentally friendly fuels. But it can also apply to airplanes, a lot of research going on there too.

A large part of Stefan Löfvens forest venture is already known. Among other things, the environmental billion which he presented earlier with Margot Wallström and which will aim to stimulate local environmental projects to help Sweden achieve established goals.



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New for today However, the Social Democrats, if the party wins government power, wants to invest a billion dollars on collaboration between industry, academia, trade unions and the state for more inventions in the climate field.

According to Stefan Löfven’ll bet funded by their own financial investments but also by redistributing money from other funds available to the industry.

A leader says, moreover, that S has more money to spend than the government because they think abolishing a range of the Alliance’s actions. Among the depressed youth payroll and restaurant sales tax.

But S also introduces a kilometer for trucks and road wear as transportation means. It is expected to hit including the forest industry, which Löfven now says it wants to focus on.

According to the S-leader, but they will earn back the extra cost in terms of the improved roads that his party wants to see if there becomes a victory in the fall.

In addition, emphasizes the importance of the Social Democrats to the forest industry may long-term rules to relate to.

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