– The changing EU legislation and the reduced CO2 limits are not necessarily a threat to the chemical industry: Instead, they may become the opportunity for speeding up modernization, as well as encouragement for innovative actions”, said Artur Osuchowski, Vice President of the Ciech company, at a conference about climatic changes.
However, sectors that share the chemical or energy industry’s approach are still few in our region. „We all agree that climatic changes will affect the global economy. However, representatives of individual sectors do not seem to understand that they will also be among those affected”, said the head of the Central and Eastern Europe economic advisory team of KPMG, Leszek Wroński, during a discussion on the impact of climatic changes on economic growth and investments in our part of the continent. Yet as follows from KPMG’s report presented yesterday, high-risk sectors are easily identified.
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Particularly exposed to the effects of the climatic changes are sectors such as oil and gas, transport, tourism, aviation, health services, as well as finance. According to experts, representatives of those sectors should even today consider adjusting their business models to the inevitable transformations.
Insufficient awareness on the part of companies is not the only problem that is found in CE Europe. The other one is the passive attitude of governments. – Instead of actively contributing to the making of ecological policy, the regions prefer to wait for ready solutions from Brussels and reflect on the best ways of avoiding such solutions – says Paul Domjan, energy expert of Stockholm Network.
