EU will remain top investor against climate change, in defiance of Donald Trump's policies

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Source: Independent

The European Investment Bank has pledged to maintain its target of investing around $20bn (£16bn) a year to fight climate change over the next five years.

“We, Europeans, must lead the free world against climate sceptics,” EID president Werner Hoyer said.

He also said Europe must become a leader in funding the next generation of sustainable technologies.

His comments have been seen as a message to US President Donald Trump, who has pledged to scrap the country's strategy to tackle climate change.

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[saidsimplesimon]

1. thank you highplains

"There is profit in them there hills." The US could have profited from new technologies, yet, the oil dinosaurs still order our thinking with constant propaganda. Even though pipelines will contribute next to nothing to the local economy, some weak minds can not, or will not resist.