Innovation, international cooperation and global action are the key to solving the climate crisis, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said last Wednesday at the UN Climate Change Conference COP29 in Baku. He also offered to share the Czech Republic's positive experience with nuclear power, which he described as a safe source of very clean energy.
At the conference in Azerbaijan, the Czech Prime Minister underlined the seriousness of climate change and its impact on individual continents, including floods in Europe. This year these have affected not only the Czech Republic but also Spain, for example. The changes also affect other key issues, including health, poverty and hunger, Fiala said.
"I firmly believe that nuclear energy is essential to achieving climate goals. Nuclear energy is becoming more and more popular in the world and that gives me hope. We are also seeing the development of new technologies. The Czech Republic has 50 years of experience with nuclear power. We are ready to help any country that wants to use it in the future," Fiala said.
According to Fiala, cooperation must be practical, based on consensus and have realistic goals. The Prime Minister appreciated that the European Union is ready to be a leader of such cooperation and that other major world players expressed their willingness to join the fight against climate change in Baku.
A two-day summit of heads of state and government on climate change in the Azerbaijani capital ends on Wednesday, as part of a climate conference that runs until 22 November. Dozens of world leaders have gathered in Baku, but some leaders of the biggest economies, which are also the biggest polluters, are absent - among them US President Joe Biden, his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and French head of state Emmanuel Macron.