The speech was held in Lövin's hometown of Värmdö in Stockholm and began with the subject of man's ecological footprint and World overshoot day - the day that the earth's population begins to live above the earth's resources for the year, which this year was July 29.

- Nature's surplus is gone and we live on credit. We are increasing the environmental debt, which already goes well above the chimneys and well into the sea depths too, Lövin said.

Fossil fuels

In the coming years, there will be evidence for parties who say they are taking the climate crisis seriously, Lövin said, raising the issue of fossil fuels and how we should approach them.

As an example, she mentioned Preem's application to expand the oil refinery in Lysekil. A question raised by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency with the government in a letter.

- We need to make sure that our legislation is sharp enough at both national and EU level to meet this greatest challenge of humanity. It is to take political responsibility, she said.

The issue of the extension is handled by the Land and Environmental Court, but if the government chooses to take up the matter, it takes over the handling to some extent.

In an interview afterwards, with SVT's reporter Niklas Svensson, the Environment Minister asked to come back to whether the government will address the matter.

At the same time, she did not want to answer whether the government should put an end to investments in fossil fuels in the future.

- There is nothing I can say as a minister. But in the larger perspective, we need to make the best conditions for a transition, where we move away from the fossil and favor what is not fossil, but renewable, she says.