Chair of Cyprus Parliamentary Committee on Environment Charalampos Theopemptou and MPs Chrysis Pantelides and Stavros Papadouris, members of the Energy, Trade, Industry and Tourism Committee participated Thursday in a virtual workshop organized by EUFORES, the European Forum for renewable energy sources. The participants debated on the European Green Deal and Cyprus’ national strategy for energy and climate.
Head of EUFORES, Members of the European parliament, government officials, representatives by the European Commission, the academia, and entrepreneurs as well as other stakeholders took part in the workshop. Cyprus House Speaker Annita Demetriou and Permanent Secretary of the Energy Ministry Marios Panayides delivered messages.
The participants presented the current situation as regards the RES strategy in Cyprus and the island’s commitments in the framework of the European Green Deal and the national plan on resilience and recovery. All MPs noted Cyprus’ energy poverty and the fact that the vulnerable groups are mostly affected by the current energy crisis and therefore measures need to be taken to tackle the issue.
Theopemptou said that we need to form an efficient energy policy in Cyprus with the use of RES and with buildings that are constructed in order to be energy efficient. Pantelides referred to the need to set the right legal framework that will allow us to have an effective energy strategy, while Papadouris said that Cyprus needs to urgently transfer to a green economy.
Source: Cyprus News Agency