Climate Change

The European continent is getting hotter more rapidly than any other and its residents can see the consequences with their own eyes. It is part of their daily lives.

We barely have enough time to place high on the agenda a new policy that will address climate shifts as glaring realities that must be urgently confronted

Civil protection cannot be reorganised in six months, and the diachronic problem of the overlapping competencies cannot be remedied swiftly, but one must take the first steps.

Aside from vaccination, which remains the most valuable tool for checking the pandemic, personal responsibility is still of fundamental importance.

'According to the International Energy Agency, more than half of the additional emissions reductions required to meet the Paris Agreement aims could be gained at no extra cost to electricity customers.

The remedy for a lack of public confidence is to invest massively in concrete climate projects and innovations, starting immediately. Climate action represents a tremendous business opportunity, and policymakers must be savvy enough to embrace it.

All of the latest phenomena (overheating, the melting of ice, wildfires, and floods) constitute a resounding alarm bell for Greece and the entire planet.

Heat waves, wildfires, natural disasters and everything expected to occur in autumn and winter, such as flooding, are the unpleasant result of major shifts that have occurred over the last 20 years.

Thousands of scientists are saying the situation is urgent and that climate change is advancing more rapidly than they believed in the past.

The cost of the effects of climate change on the Greek economy will be enormous and it is estimated at 700bn euros by the end of the century.

Irresponsible leaders and the timidity and reluctance of other major economies such as China's to cooperate in order to reverse climate change leave little room for optimism.

The country’s infrastructure works, including the roads network, are antiquated. Their endurance is minimal and the safety of thousands of citizens is jeopardised.