EU chief von der Leyen: I put the long term perspective to have climate neutrality by 2050

7 months ago
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EU chief von der Leyen: "We've seen the climate change is a fact and this is the reason why I put the long term perspective to have climate neutrality by 2050 in this mandate. Everybody agreed, the member states, the parliament, everyone agreed. So this is cast in law.... Now we are in the phase where we have to implement it, where we have to make sure and this is why we have the dialogues with industry and with the farmers to ask them what is it what you need to reach climate neutrality, what is it what you need to fulfil the road map....in the farmers dialogue for example the answers are very clear from the farmers. They say: We want climate neutrality because we live of nature, we know that we want to get there, but please we want to move from conditionality to incentives. We want to move from massive reporting to modern technologies like drones to control what is necessary. And the same goes for the industry. We have so many strengths, we are leaders in clean technologies, now we have to get it on the road..."

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