European politicians, companies, lawmakers, and activists called on Tuesday for green investment to restart growth after the coronavirus pandemic, saying fighting climate change and promoting biodiversity would rebuild stronger economies.
The European Union is headed for a steep recession triggered by the outbreak, but divided on how to finance economic recovery, with the ailing south advocating issuing joint debt against the opposition of the fiscally conservative north.
With EU leaders due to meet next week to discuss the recovery plan, a group of 180 political decision-makers, business leaders, trade unions, campaign groups, and think tanks urged the bloc to adopt green stimulus measures.
“After the crisis, the time will come to rebuild,” they said in a letter.
“The transition to a climate-neutral economy, the protection of biodiversity and the transformation of agri-food systems have the potential to rapidly deliver jobs, growth … and to contribute to building more resilient societies.”
Signatories included ministers from 10 countries from Italy to Luxembourg, 79 EU lawmakers, and chief executives from L’Oreal’s Jean-Paul Agon to IKEA’s Jesper Brodin and Danone’s Emmanuel Faber.
Calling fallout from the coronavirus pandemic a shock worse than the 2008 financial crisis, the signatories said rescue measures should advance the EU’s landmark Green Deal policy package, which aims to bring the 27-nation bloc to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Calls for a green EU recovery have grown louder in recent days after European finance ministers on Thursday agreed on support for their coronavirus-battered economies but left open the question of how to finance the bloc’s recovery.
Ten EU countries, joined by Germany, France, and Greece over the weekend, have signed a separate open letter urging the EU to ensure its rescue package supports the Green Deal.
Poland and the Czech Republic are among countries asking the EU to ease climate policies amid the pandemic.
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So what the EU Elites want to do is make a poor economy their new normal. Because that’s what they will get if they actually move forward with this.
There is nothing like taking your Country back to the Dark Ages and using this Global Warming/Climate Change scam in order to do it first you must convince everybody to give up everything they have including their Liberty and Soventry and telling them ITS FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH any little thing they will try any dirty little tricks in their little black books of Dirty Deeds its all about the plans of the Globalists and the UN
Economic prosperity by following their agenda has been promised by the environmental left for at least 15 years. I remember reading an article stating that the US had better get on board because nations that had adopted the green agenda would have booming economies as the US was left behind. However, typical of the environmental movement, it is just the opposite that is true. The Europeans have the term “carbon leak”, which is the loss of industry and the associated jobs to other countries as employers move out due to the price of energy. In one way EU’s Green Deal will stimulate the economy. That is the economy of China as companies move there to get away from high priced energy.