EU Ambassador to the US: Europe Has the Will and the Way To Achieve the Green Transition
The European Union is a complicated place in terms of climate change mitigation and other environmental issues, largely because it contains countries like Poland that are heavily dependent on coal.
Having said that, there is some really good news from the Continent as to how to rebuild the economy in a post-pandemic world. From this article in CEENERGY NEWS:
Choosing the pathway to growth
Talking about financing the recovery of European economies, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen emphasised the need to boost the EU’s resilience by investing in the European Green Deal, arguing that “global warming will not slow down and first-mover advantage will count double, thus finding the right projects to invest in will be key.”
Discussing the implications of COVID-19 on the energy agenda, Stavros Lambrinidis, the European Union Ambassador to the United States, underlined that once the global health crisis is over we will still face the same realities, the urgency of climate change mitigation.
“As we will recharge our economies after the crisis is over […], we have to decide if we embark on the growth model of the past, that by definition has an expiration date, or we will invest in a new kind of growth that is circular and sustainable,” stated the Ambassador. “The EU Green Deal has been conceived as a modern growth strategy, that will pour substantial investment in the green transition.”
Will the United States join in the charge? That’s a function of what happens here in November.
