EUROSOLAR calls for climate defense budget to finance phase-out of fossil fuels

BONN- The European Delegates Assembly of European Association for Renewable Energy,   EUROSOLAR  has made an urgent appeal  for the mobilization of a climate defense budget to finance a phase-out of fossil fuels and a transformation to 100 percent renewable in less than 10 years.

Making  the appeal in a ten-point paper, on the occasion of the current UN Climate Change Conference COP26 and the failure of the G20 countries in climate protection so far, EUROSOLAR  called for the implementation of a European and global climate migration management planning, noting that billions of people will seek new homes due to escalating global heating.

Besides agricultural and soil management transformations, EUROSOLAR  demanded for the commitment of industry to carbon removal and a material product binding processes.

The Delegates Assembly, the highest body of EUROSOLAR with the representatives of its 14 national sections, called for a Regenerative Europe Decade in order to go beyond the European Green Deal and rapidly transform Europe into an emission-negative and climate-positive continent in view of the atmospheric CO2 concentration increasing far in excess of stable levels.

EUROSOLAR outlines the measures needed to achieve this in its “Call for Action 2021” published today.

“When it comes to climate protection, the G20 countries continue to fail in their central mission – to safeguard the interests of their constituents and ensure their fundamental economic viability. The often demanded climate neutrality is not enough – and did not even get a mention in the practically empty communiqué of the recent G20 summit in Rome,” said Prof. Peter Droege, President of EUROSOLAR.  “Far more effective measures will be required than those which have been discussed by politicians so far.”

Already in January last year, the Board of EUROSOLAR had declared the Regenerative Decade and in this context described ten measures that are mandatory to realize a rapid transformation towards a climate-positive economy and society.

“It is irresponsible to demand climate neutrality with the today’s CO2 concentration of nearly 420 parts per million. The goal can only be a climate positive footprint,” Droege explains. Thus – according to the first demand of the paper – the emission targets would have to be redefined, since the emission targets formulated so far by the policy are aligned only to climatic neutrality, but not to climatic positivity, which is absolutely necessary, in order to secure the basis of existence of our societies.