“What we do today will really start to change conditions decades from now.” If nothing else, “the challenge is very big, the climate crisis will be close to us for the next thirty to forty years”, the Minister of Environment and Energy emphasized, among other things, regarding the climate crisis. Theodoros Skylakakiswelcoming the event “Climate neutral, resilient and smart Central Macedonia”, organized by TEE – Department of Central Macedonia and the Region of Central Macedonia.
“These lead us to new policies, which we have already started and are implementing,” noted Mr. Skylakakis in his videotaped greeting. At the same time, he referred to the great reform that is taking place in forests, the reform in construction in order to end the problem of arbitrary construction but also in other actions, such as for example those concerning mountain hydrology and the reform of all bodies that manage water. In this way, as he said, the effectiveness of the mechanisms involved will be increased so that they become more capable in the face of these great challenges that the climate crisis and climate change bring us.
As the minister pointed out: “there is a need to have these kinds of reflection conferences because before us we still have very serious and long phases of the green transition, i.e. the attempt to reduce greenhouse gases, and at the same time we have a climate crisis in full swing, which is also it will impose very significant prevention costs in order to be able to build this resilience we are talking about today, but also costs to deal with the natural disasters that we will inevitably have regardless of the prevention costs”.
At the same time, he underlined: “Succeeding in managing both of these efforts requires a very large increase in the effectiveness of our policies not only in Greece but also in Europe and the world and very strict realism in relation to which expenditures we prioritize and why”.
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