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Thu, 7th May 2020 12:42:00 |
Mark Carney: 'We can't self-isolate from climate change' |
The former governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has added his voice to calls for industrialised nations to invest in a greener economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis.
He shared his comments in an online discussion about climate change with the former Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull.
Both called on nations to accelerate a transition to cleaner energy.
The event was organised by the Policy Exchange think tank.
Mr Carney said that the pandemic was "a terrible situation, but there was also a big opportunity" at the end of it.
"We have a situation with climate change which will involve every country in the world and from which we can't self-isolate," he added.
Science confronts politics
As has rapidly become the socially distant norm, both participants joined the discussion via video conference from their respective homes - setting out how they saw ways in which countries could emerge from the crisis with cleaner, more sustainable economies.
Mr Turnbull, who was Australia's prime minister from 2015-2018, issued blunt, broad criticisms of many governments for failing to take the science of climate change seriously.
Drawing bleak parallels with the pandemic, Mr Turnbull said Covid-19 was a case of "biology confronting and shaking the complacency of day-to-day politics with a physical reality of sickness and death".
"The question is, when will the physics of climate change mug the complacency and denialism - just as biology has with respect to the virus."
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