“Definitely not enough.” That is the first reaction of climate activist Anuna De Wever to the European climate agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent by 2030. She does appreciate, in her opinion, the improved Belgian attitude.
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The European agreement is ‘absolutely not enough’, Anuna De Wever said on Friday during a Youth For Climate campaign at the Atomium. “ If we don’t want the planet to heat up by one and a half degrees, it must be a 75 percent or 80 percent reduction in emissions, ” she explained to the news agency Belgian.
She does think that the attitude of the Belgian government towards climate ambition has improved. About Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, who supported the European climate goals, she says: ‘I am very happy to see that things are moving. In the past, Belgium did not even take its responsibility to follow Europe anymore, now we have already reached that point. Now Belgium also has to adjust its policy accordingly. ‘
Youth For Climate, of which Anuna De Wever and her French-speaking colleague Adelaïde Charlier are still the figureheads, held an action at the Atomium on Friday evening. Some German and Polish activists were also there. The young climate activists lit dozens of candles, which together make up the text Fight for 1 point 5 show. The same action happened simultaneously in a lot of other world cities, on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Paris climate agreement. ‘We are taking this action to remind the European Council and everyone what the ambition should be: to get global warming below 1.5 degrees,’ says De Wever.
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