Marcelo Mena :The economic benefits of climate action

Marcelo Mena·TED2020

The economic benefits of climate action

Summary

This was a pretty good story because people try to create a better country hard after COVID-19. 

The speaker, the former environment minister of Chile, answered that people started looking around through this pandemic. They might pollute their air by barbecues, buying a lot of clothes, or eating a lot. Requiring blowing up an economy must mean to destroy the environment.

Chile recently committed to net-zero emissions by 2050. Net-zero refers to balancing the amount of emitted greenhouse gases with the equivalent emissions that are either offset or sequestered.

Chile has large coal-fired power plants being situated where people live and with higher mortality rates. Many trees were cut, thus if we change our actions, we will lose more people than COVID.

The former environment minister of Chile tells us that there is the responsibility as a fiduciary. It’s important that people in the country think about that, their consensus is continuing, for climate action,

there are economic benefitｓ. There are transitional and physical risks to change energies, but we should have an action.

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fi·du·ci·ar·y / trustee, one who holds property or power for the benefit of another (Law)