As living costs surge, climate change takes a backseat in elections - BusinessWorld Online

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As countries from the Philippines to Lebanon and Brazil gear up for elections, climate change has not featured as a major issue. In other places, like France, green parties have not made advances in recent votes.

Tacloban, Leyte, after Typhoon Haiyan struck in 2013. — Eoghan Rice/Trócaire/Caritas/Wikimedia Commons

“The world is getting crazy. We don’t understand the weather these days,” Mr. Daga, 33, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Despite that, as countries from the Philippines to Lebanon and Brazil gear up for elections, climate change has not featured as a major issue. In other places, like France, green parties have not made advances in recent votes.

In Australia, the two main parties contesting the May 21 national elections have said they would continue to support coal exports, despite an increasing majority of AustraliansPoliticians who have shown how they can help people cope with COVID-19-related economic fallout and rising inflation have proved popular in recent elections, noted climate policy expert Danny Marks.

Mr. Marks urged politicians who care about climate change to highlight the immediate benefits of a green shift, such as renewable energy jobs and improvements to public health.

 

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