Caspian Energy (CE): Mr. Vice President, the importance of the climate change issues today is second only to coronavirus vaccination on the world agenda. Why does climate warming seem so frightening in your opinion, after all there were vineyards growing in England back in 1100-1300 years, and Greenland used to be a green inhabited continent?
Frans Timmermans, European Commission Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal: The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly taking a massive toll on our society and citizens are very much worried about their health or their job. Still we see that a vast majority of people remains very concerned about the climate crisis as well. That’s understandable: there is no vaccine against climate change, and across the world we are already experiencing plagues, severe droughts, unpredictable weather, devastating forest fires and storms. So people realize how urgent it is to act now.
Another important aspect of acting now relates to the costs. The sooner we start, the lower the cost will be and the earlier society will start feeling the benefits. I do not want to pretend that this will be easy, it will be very hard, but I strongly believe that we can do it. Investing now to fight the climate crisis will cost far less than when we fail to act.
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