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UN Climate Chief Major Speech to Europe: Strong New EU Climate Plan is Strongest Form of "Economic Security Guarantee”
2025.03.26
https://unfccc.int/news/un-climate-chief-major-speech-to-europe-strong-new-eu-climate-plan-is-strongest-form-of-economic
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1. Sicily: 시칠리아

Script
Colleagues, honored guests, lots of words have been used to describe the subject of this session. Words like upheaval and crisis.
I will use a different word: disruption.
Disruption means change, yes. But it can also be a force for progress, opening up vast new opportunities.
I want to challenge you today to see the disruption of this moment – on the climate front - as a monumental opportunity, as much as a monumental, heightened risk.
The costs imposed by the climate crisis are of course already massive and growing fast.
From unprecedented storms hitting Europe’s west coast and heatwaves, to droughts in Sicily and floods across central Europe, climate-driven disasters are slashing food production and destroying infrastructure, businesses, homes and communities.
Driving up costs for households and businesses and driving down competitiveness.
Climate impacts could carve up to 1 percent from the EU’s combined GDP in coming years – something Europe can ill-afford with its modest and fragile annual GDP growth.
And the climate crisis could carve up to 2.3% off Europe’s GDP by mid-century – a recipe for permanent recession, meaning continuously shrinking economies, failing businesses, and significantly increased unemployment.
And these are very conservative estimates. They don’t include the cascade of societal and ecological destruction, the food, water, and energy shortages we’d face if climate change is not contained.
And the damage will not stop at Europe’s borders, but it will increasingly impact them.
As disasters make more and more regions unlivable, and food production declines, millions more people will be forced to migrate, internally and across borders.
Unquestionably, the climate crisis is an urgent national security crisis that should be at the top of every cabinet room agenda.
Surrender is not an option. And half measures are a recipe for failure.
It is already at the top of most household agendas: 94% of Europeans support measures to build resilience and adapt to climate change.
So governments have a very clear mandate for climate action.
But let me turn now to the other side of the coin, and the monumental opportunities that climate action presents for Europe.
As one government steps back from climate leadership, it opens up space for others to step forward and seize the vast benefits on offer.
And let’s be clear: in a global clean energy boom that hit 2 trillion US dollars last year – the dividends on offer are truly monumental.
The clean energy transition can be Europe’s economic engine-room, now – when new sources of growth are vital to buttress living standards - and for decades to come.