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| Climate challenges remain |
| Bratislava, 22.12.2015 |
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| Ambitious but not concrete. That is how environmentalists and climatologists describe the climate deal reached in Paris. Slovakia’s Environment Ministry says it will “bring a turn in the fight against climate change”.
The Paris Agreement that the delegates passed at the Paris Conference on December 12 establishes the target to keep the rise in global temperature below 2°C and attempt to limit it to 1.5°C. This is to be achieved based on the action plans that 186 countries including Slovakia had published before the Paris Conference in which they specify how they want to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
“The Paris global climate agreement is fundamental for humankind and for the planet,” Environment Minister Peter Žiga, who incidentally faced a no-confidence motion in the parliament on the final day of the Paris Conference, commented. He believes it means “a clear gradual withdrawal from fossil fuels”.
Poor use of renewables
There is a single point where the government and environmentalists speak in unison: fossil fuels should soon be history. Slovakia should cut financial support for the mining and burning of coal, according to Greenpeace Slovakia.
“The government should definitely concentrate more on new green projects and renewables, and it should stop financing old heavy industry,” Greenpeace Slovakia’s spokesperson Miroslava Ábelová told The Slovak Spectator, adding that such a strategy would also bring new challenges for the economy – such as new jobs or possibilities for new interesting projects or investors.
“We definitely have greater potential for sensible and good quality projects than [we are running] today,” Ábelová said, pointing out that Slovakia only has one wind park with four turbines, and another single wind turbine in Ostrá Lúka.
“When it comes to using wind energy, we are ranked second to last in Europe,” Ábelová noted.
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