The Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG Clima) of the European Commission has launched the application process for individuals aiming to inform and inspire their communities, including local authorities, about climate policies and actions, to become ambassadors of the European Climate Pact (ECP), inform Agerpres.
Applications can be submitted electronically via the dedicated website, https://climate-pact.europa.eu/get-involved/become-pact-ambassador_en, and future ambassadors may come from various fields and lead initiatives that support environmental policies. They will be selected based on their compatibility with the values of the European Climate Pact and their commitment to raising awareness about the impact of climate change.
Romania currently has 35 ECP ambassadors, out of more than 1,000 across Europe and some of them recently took part in the debate called "What and how we will eat in 2035: climate resilience of food and eating habits in the next decade," where representatives of local gastronomy hubs from various counties, as well as local producers, presented the challenges they are confronted with.
"There is intense regulation at European level on agricultural practices, on the taxation of industrial practices, major emitters, and all these regulations will start to show their effects in a few years. The good part is that the direction we're heading values quality, so it is important to survive in the market," lawyer Laura Petrescu, an ECP ambassador stated within the debate held as part of the Ivan Patzaichin - Rowmania Festival.
In his turn, Mihail Caradaica, lecturer at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) and also an ECP ambassador, emphasized the importance of the relationship which the consumers project in relation with nature and highlighted the need for both consumers and food producers to become aware of the importance of protecting natural resources and adapting to ongoing changes.
According to a press release on Tuesday by the Ivan Patzaichin-Mila 23 Association, the ECP is a 2020 initiative of the European Commission aimed at engaging citizens, communities and organizations in climate action and the selection process for new ambassadors and initiative partners takes place every autumn.
The ECP offers a framework for climate awareness and action for European citizens, with the aim of transforming the European Union into a modern, competitive and resource-efficient economy, in which economic growth is decoupled from resource use, and the EU becomes climate neutral by 2050.
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