In the fourth episode of This Time Tomorrow, Benni and Omri talk to Tobias Lechtenfeld about energy, climate change and the lack of investment in the green tech sector. What steps do European countries need to take in order to provide citizens and industry with access to reliable and affordable energy? Now that climate change skeptics have moved into the White House, what can Europe do to lead the world towards a green reindustrialisation?
“We are moving forward, whether the Trumps of this world want it or not. Because it’s good business. And there is a future in this. It’s not politicians that decide this alone. The investment case is there. There’s no safer industry to invest in than cleantech because we know that it’s the only industry for sure that will have a growing demand. I don’t know if we’ll ever need flying taxis. I don’t know if we really need bitcoins. But I can tell you, we need to reindustrialise the entire planet, make it fossil free, there’s no other way around it…”
Tobias Lechtenfeld is Executive Director at Tech for Net Zero, Partner at 1.5* Ventures, and a former Campaign Manager for Volt Europa.
Source, clip 1: YouTube, Quest Means Business, “Can You Say ‘The Draghi Report.’”
Source, clip 2: YouTube, EU Debates, “Mario Draghi’s Urgent Call…”
https://techfornetzero.org/en/
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