The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs Anita Demetriou, held a meeting today with a delegation of the 'Generation KlimACT' Youth Movement of the Cyprus Foundation for the Protection of the Environment (Terra Cypria), during which they discussed the impacts that Cyprus is experiencing and is expected to experience as a result of climate change.
The children and young people, who are being trained by the Foundation on climate action issues, informed the Speaker of the Parliament about the work being done, raised questions and stressed the need for awareness-raising actions to be undertaken by all decision-makers in the country in order to anticipate, as far as possible, the disastrous consequences of indiscriminate emissions and the failure to protect the environment.
The Speaker of the Parliament, for her part, stressed the need for cooperation between the state and the EU in order to take immediate measures/decisions for the creation of the necessary structures and/or the promotion of legislative arrangements for the implementation of Cyprus' nationally defined targets for achieving climate neutrality by 2030, for the implementation of the European Commission's proposals for the transformation of the EU's economy and society to meet climate ambitions, the protection of biodiversity, the enhancement of sustainable development and the protection of biodiversity.
