Greenpeace Calls on Minister Taraba to Start Tackling Climate Crisis

Bratislava, 3 July (TASR) - Greenpeace Slovakia has called on Environment Minister Tomas Taraba (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) to urgently address the climate crisis, demanding the drafting of a climate law and an adaptation plan, along with other measures. The activists also drew attention to the inaction of the head of the Environment Ministry and to the current heatwave with a life-size ice sculpture depicting the minister, which they set up in front of the Environment Ministry in Bratislava. "The minister has long ignored the problems of the climate crisis. And not only that, he even tries to systematically undermine the little that comes from the European Union," said Dorota Osvaldova of the organisation at a briefing on Thursday. Greenpeace called on the minister to finally start taking the existing climate crisis seriously, and it criticised him for declaring his support for weakening the Green Deal for Europe, a plan to strengthen and increase Europe's resilience to the climate crisis. The organisation called on the head of the Environment Ministry to urgently adopt a climate law in cooperation with experts, including a plan for adaptation measures because mitigation measures alone aren't sufficient. At the same time, in cooperation with the Economy Ministry, the development of renewable energy sources should be promoted and obstacles to the development of energy communities should be removed. "The climate crisis is here, and we need to prepare for it and adapt to it," stressed Osvaldova. am/df