The report concerns the administration of six subsidy schemes intended to help reduce Denmark’s CO₂ emissions.
The purpose of the study is to assess whether the Ministry of Climate and the Ministry of Transport have administered the subsidy schemes satisfactorily. Rigsrevisionen answers the following questions in the report:
- Are the schemes’ objectives transparent?
- Are the reductions reported reliably?
Rigsrevisionen assesses that the Ministry of Climate’s administration of the subsidy schemes is unsatisfactory. As a general rule, the Ministry has not adjusted the schemes’ objectives when additional funding has been allocated and has not provided a reliable picture of the realised CO₂ reductions. Neither the Ministry of Climate nor the Ministry of Transport has an overview of the targets for their schemes. The consequence of these administrative shortcomings is that it is unclear to the ministries how many CO₂ reductions have been achieved for the nearly DKK 6 billion allocated in the period 2020-2025, and thus whether the schemes are contributing as expected to achieving the targets set out in the Climate Act.
Rigsrevisionen initiated the study in November 2024.
Read the introduction and conclusion (PDF)