At this point, debating climate change seems unnecessary… although there are always those who deny the evidence. But leaving the debate aside, Europe is once again suffering from the . This time, the matter transcends Spain and reaches a good part of the continent… and beyond.
The heat wave that is currently lashing Western Europe It’s just kind of surprising. Is a “brutal reminder” of the consequences of climate changein the words of the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Simon Stiell.
The politician from the island of Grenada has been at the head of the UNFCCC since August 2022. Now, he has made an analysis of the ‘suffocating’ thermal situationwho believes that he should lead us to a reflection on the need to accelerate the transition to clean energies.
“This latest heat wave in Europe is a brutal reminder of the growing consequences of the climate crisisboth human and economic. He The main culprit is the world’s dependence on burning coal., oil and gasas well as the deforestation “said Simon Stiell in a statement transmitted to the French agency AFP.
The UN expert adds to climate change itself the effects of war in the middle east which, he points out, illustrates “the exorbitant costs of dependence on fossil fuel imports.” Since the beginning of the American-Israeli offensive against the Iranian regime, the production of countless products and elements linked to crude oil or international transportation.
Faced with an expensive and unsustainable panorama, he explains that there is a alternative scenariowhere “the solutions are equally clear: a faster transition to clean energy“.
These solutions would be greatly helped by two equally key elements, “a much faster removal of the dependence on fossil fuels” and “greater investment in developing resilience to climate impacts.”
