The EU countries have decided to invest 6,000 billion DKK in armaments over the next four years, but at the same time several green organizations warn that the climate crisis must not take a back seat. Concito, Green Power Denmark and the Climate Movement in Denmark are all urging politicians to maintain focus on the green transition. The green think tank Concito emphasizes that security and energy policy are closely linked. This is reported by DR.
- Right now, politicians are talking about security and a new geopolitical situation, but just behind it lurk the challenges of the climate, says Christian Ibsen, director of Concito.
He points out that an accelerated green transition will reduce dependence on fossil fuels, including Russian gas, which still forms part of the EU's energy supply. The same message comes from Green Power Denmark, where political director Thomas Aarestrup Jepsen emphasizes that renewable energy such as wind and solar energy can strengthen Europe's energy independence. The Climate Movement in Denmark also believes that the climate crisis has slipped into the background in the current security policy debate.
- Of course, there must be enormous focus on the brutality that is currently taking place in Ukraine. But we simply have to prevent climate change from escalating, says Secretary General Frederik Roland Sandby of the Climate Movement in Denmark.
He calls for a plan for how the increased CO2 emissions from the armaments can be compensated for elsewhere, for example through faster expansion of wind and solar energy or reduction of agriculture's climate footprint.
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