Τhe cost of climate change for Greece by the end of the century is estimated at 2.2 billion euros per year, or about 1% of gross domestic product at current values, according to a report by the Bank of Greece and its governor Yannis Stournaras on the environmental, economic and social impacts in Greece.
The government’s intention to incorporate the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), the oldest and one of the largest research institutions in the country, into the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, by cutting it off from the General Secretariat of Research and Technology, where all research centers belong, is coming under fire from the research community.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) in Dubai on Friday that Greece is “the world’s leading global shipping power, controlling nearly 25% of the global shipping fleet.”
Despite the “climate devastation” experienced by the country in recent times, “a new Greece is emerging,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has told the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) in Dubai.
Britain’s King Charles wore a tie bearing the colors and symbols of the Greek national flag to a climate conference on Friday, days after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak snubbed his Greek peer Kyriakos Mitsotakis in a row over the Parthenon Sculptures.
Poros will become the third “green” island under the government’s GR-eco Islands national initiative, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitostakis has announced at the COP28 conference in Dubai. The transformation of the island would take place in collaboration with United Arab Emirates state-owned green energy company Masdar, he added.
Britain’s King Charles has said the world was “dreadfully far off track” on addressing climate change and that the global economy would be in peril unless the environment was rapidly repaired.
As the COP28 summit gets under way in Dubai to discuss climate change, the results of a Greek public opinion poll conducted after the devastating Storm Daniel in September has shown that that young people in Greece are skeptical about climate change.
Greece will be represented in the 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Minister of Environment and Energy Theo Skylakakis, Minister of State for Economic Diplomacy and Extroversion Costas Fragogiannis and Minister of State for Environment and Energy Alexandra Sdoukou.
As global leaders gather in Dubai for the world’s U.N. climate conference, delegates hope to clinch an early victory on a disaster fund on Thursday before the summit turns its focus to fossil fuels and other divisive topics.
The Academy of Athens on Monday presented an advanced new system for monitoring the impact of climate change on the natural environment and monuments of the sacred site of Delos, listed by UNESCO among the world’s 13 most vulnerable sites to extreme weather phenomena.
Climate change is accelerating. Our time to limit global warming to 1.5°C is running out.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis presented the government’s measures for the reconstruction of the Thessaly and Evros regions in Parliament on Wednesday. Additionally, he outlined a series of initiatives to address the climate crisis, emphasizing that climate change is a global challenge unsuitable for political confrontations.
Dimitris Kouretas, elected governor of Greece’s central province of Thessaly last month in the wake of calamitous floods, struggles to sleep at night.
Government measures aimed at reconstructing the regions of Thessaly and Evros in the wake of this year’s disasters and addressing the climate crisis will be deliberated in Wednesday’s plenary session of Parliament.
The fires came first. Then the floods. In the small village of Sesklo in central Greece, 46-year old Vasilis Tsiamitas has felt the extremes of both freak weather phenomena this summer that have made Greece a climate change hotspot.
