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Czech governmnet approves climate change adaptation plan

Xinhua, January 17, 2017 Adjust font size:

The Czech government approved on Monday a national action plan for adaptating to the climate change in the country, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka wrote on his Twitter after the cabinet meeting.

The strategic document aims to help cope with draught, floods and boost protection of forests and water sources in the Czech Republic.

With 50 priority steps including 160 most important tasks, the plan will cost over 1 billion crowns (about 40 million U.S. dollars).

Sobotka said that the government continues to prepare the country for serious climate changes. By 2020, up to 834 million crowns (about 33 million dollars) will have gone to the crucial ones, and further 415 million crowns (about 16 million dollars) would have been used for complementary measures.

The plan was completed by Czech Environment Ministry with the assistance of about 140 experts from the public, private and academic sectors in the country.

However, Czech environmental expert Michal Kucera criticized the plan for insufficiently emphasizing energy saving and efficiency.

He said that as a result of such emphasis, the state's support for industry would switch from assembly plants, based on cheap labour, towards more sophisticated sectors, such as the the area of automatization of buildings. He said that energy saving is one of the easiest achievable and most efficient measures of climate protection. Enditem