ISThe Icelandic Ministry of Environment, Energy, and Climate has disclosed that the cost of climate-related measures from 2017 to 2024 amounted to approximately 86.4 billion Icelandic krona. This figure comes from a response by Minister Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson to a parliamentary inquiry by Eiríkur Björn Björgvinsson of the Renewal Party. The costs include actions aimed at reducing emissions or increasing carbon capture but exclude wages, related expenses, and other operational costs. The spending increased steadily from 2017 to 2023, peaking at around 21 billion krona in 2023 before sharply declining to about 9.7 billion krona in 2024. However, most of this expenditure was in the form of tax incentives rather than direct government spending, with nearly 72 billion krona allocated through tax breaks such as subsidies for electric vehicles, incentives for energy transition, exemptions from vehicle taxes for methane-powered cars, and reductions in taxes related to renewable energy usage.
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