European Commission Head Pledges Billions for Climate Initiatives in Speech with Swedish Student Leader

Reuters

The European Union should spend hundreds of billions of euros combating climate change during the next decade, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Thursday in a speech alongside 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, who has inspired a global youth movement for climate action. Juncker pledged that 25 percent of the EU’s 1 trillion euro budget over seven years will go toward action to mitigate climate change.  

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