Mediterranean nations must lead the way in addressing climate change, the Greek prime minister said, warning that the cost of doing nothing was unimaginable, with mankind possibly struggling to survive beyond the turn of the next century.
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"And in order to address it, we need horizontal policies which essentially permeate every aspect of our economic and our social life." Mitsotakis hosted leaders of nine southern European nations, in the "front line" of climate change, in Athens on Friday, when they called for urgent global action as part of an "Athens declaration" initiated by Mitsotakis.
"We have to be very, very, very clear. This is exactly what is at stake. If the worst-case scenarios materialise, this planet is not going to be hospitable to the human species by the end of this century."Here in the Mediterranean, we have almost 6,000 years of civilization behind us but it's the duty of our generation to make sure that the future generations will continue to live and thrive and prosper.
Floods in Greece cost half a billion euros last year, and every crop ravaged by weather extremes could run into hundreds of millions in damages, he said. Coastal erosion from rising sea levels was another challenge as a direct threat to tourism, an area of particular importance to Greece.
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