Labour calls on Government to address the challenges posed by climate change with ‘real facts’

In a statement issued this morning on the occasion of the Global Climate Change Action Day, Brincat insisted that “both Maltese and Gozitan citizens as well as the international community have the duty and the obligation to addresss the challenges posed by climate change”.

In Malta the people expected that “in the shortest time possible, an update of the measues contained in the Government action plan which was approved more than a year ago which have been implemented as well as the government’s plans for the near future should be affected”.

However, Brincat warned that “everybody should realise that if the Cancun talks failed like those on Climate Change last December in Copenhagen, the climate change talks would have become “irrelevant”.

The Labour MP called for “a strong and serious commitment so as to find common solutions in this move forward”.

Brincat explained how one could not ignore the recent conclusions by WWF that if the countries concerned did not take seriously the need for a reduction in greenhouse gases, “they are not only going to reach dangerous levels in the next ten years”.

However, the WWF reported warned that in the next ten years, “these would have also increased by more than 30% from the acceptable norm to avoid a direct threat for the standard of living for each and everybody of us,” Brincat concluded.