Portuguese candidates for June’s European Parliament elections must commit to climate protection and carbon neutrality by 2045 during the election campaign, challenging the European Climate Pact.
In addition to achieving carbon neutrality by 2045, the European Union must mobilize to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels by 80% by 2030 and its energy sector neutrality by 2035, says a statement from the European Climate Pact, an initiative of the European Environment Organization. A pact promoted by the European Union and coordinated in Portugal by the environmental association Zero.
The challenge to the 21 candidates who will be selected at the European Championships is officially presented on Saturday in Lisbon as part of the “Ativa Ação Climática Festival”, which starts this Friday and ends on Sunday.
Candidates are invited to put environmental issues at the center of policy work in Strasbourg and Brussels and commit to defending the key conclusions of the latest UN climate summit COP28 (in 2023 in Dubai).
“In view of the climate emergency the world is experiencing, it is essential that candidates from all parties running in Portugal in the next European elections put environmental issues at the center of their policy proposals,” Duarte said as quoted in the statement. Costa, Ambassador of the European Climate Pact to combat climate change.
The European Climate Pact advocates a transition away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy systems in a fair, orderly and equitable manner as a way to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius in the coming decades.
“The Portuguese elected to the European Parliament must demand a sharp reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions this decade, in line with scientific recommendations,” says Duarte Costa.
The Ativa Festival is organized by the environmental association Zero and consists of workshops, music, dance, documentaries, debates, art and various sporting events.
It takes place in the old Rato market and Campo Martires da Patria in Lisbon, and its mission is to “involve and mobilize all people in a true alliance for the benefit of the planet and all its ecosystems,” says Islene Fasaña of Lisbon. organization .
The European Climate Pact aims to mobilize communities in Europe towards investments, activities and processes that gradually become less dependent on fossil fuels.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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