Municipality of Athens – New plan to tackle climate change

The updated plan of the Municipality of Athens to deal with climate change will be discussed at the next meeting of the Municipal Council of Athens, as announced by the mayor, Costas Bakogiannis, at today’s meeting.

“We are already experiencing the consequences of climate change and the climate threat and there is no doubt that if we do not shield our city, Athens in a few decades will be unfit to live in,” said the mayor. This year’s catastrophic fires he stressed “was another alarm. We have neither an alibi nor any excuses “. Mr. Bakoyannis expressed the hope that the updated plan of the municipality will have “cross-party consensus. The fight against this phenomenon, the protection of the city, green security, goes beyond the term of a mayor or a Municipal Authority. It is not a matter of the Left or the Right. It has nothing to do with either capitalism or socialism. But with the ability of cities to claim their future.” He also stressed that although it is a global problem it also requires local solutions.