United Kingdom changes course and reverses the implementation of green policies. The Government of Prime Minister Rishi Sunakwill grant new licenses to extract oil and gas in the North Sea.

In BerlinMeanwhile, demonstrations against climate change take place. The new local government of the German capital has announced that it will paralyze the pedestrianization of the city. “We hope that the same thing happens to these examples as to Trump and Bolsonarowho with the change of government have joined the climate consensus,” reflects Pedro Zorrilla, of Greenpeace.

Because that is what is happening: governments applying measures against the scientific consensus. But the latter continues to warn that the countdown against climate change is still underway. Pablo Muñoz, spokesperson for Ecologistas en Acción, defends that “all public policies should be aligned with complying with the same goals (…) The signs of the impact of the climate emergency are clear: floods, droughts, heat waves…”.

They are political decisions made, to the greatest extent, by conservative governments that set the reaction against green policies on their agenda. “At the moment when it is an issue that attracts the left, those on the right not only do not support them, but they will be rejected, they will support governments that are belligerent with these agendas,” says Ignacio Jurado. Professor of Political Science at the Carlos III University.