‘If Guernsey can’t do it, who can?’
AS Sir David Attenborough has urged nations to fight climate change, a senior Guernsey politician has said that if the island cannot do it then who can?
Speaking at the United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Sir David said: ‘If working apart we are a force powerful enough to destabilise our planet, surely working together we are powerful enough to save it.’
Deputy Lindsay de Sausmarez, president of Environment & Infrastructure, is attending COP26 and said that Guernsey had the ability to be a global force for good.
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Asked what Guernsey as a small island could do about climate change, she said: ‘I would always flip that actually myself and say: “If Guernsey can’t do it, who can?” We are an agile, fleet of foot, autonomous jurisdiction with quite a high GDP per capita.
Deputy de Sausmarez, speaking in the first of a special Guernsey Press series of climate podcasts, said that Guernsey could ‘punch well above our weight’.
‘We might be a relatively small community, 63,000-odd people, but our impact on the global stage can go so much further than that. One of the ways in which we can do that is through green finance.’
