Europe Says Financial Crisis Doesn’t Trump Climate Change
Jul 25th, 2009 Originally Posted by Zachary Shahan
In a meeting with environment and energy ministers from other European countries yesterday, the Sweden’s Minister of Environment, Andreas Carlgren, said that global economic problems should in no way slow movement to address climate change. Other leading European ministers agreed.
Economic problems today are in many ways a result of environmental missteps in the past. If we want a healthy economy in the future, we have to take the environment into account more than we have. The Swedish Minister of the Environment agrees and says that there should be no hesitation to combat climate change due to the current economic situation.