122 www.gogreen-project.eu The association also requires some regular official information by businesses of their region with detailed reports on their footprint measurements and the fossil fuels consumption, along with any future plans for investment in eco-oriented products and operations. Role [3]: The State representatives State representatives (public services) are especially concerned with maintaining a strong economy and increasing population in rural areas. They are seeing a growing amount of concern about the climate issue from local communities, which has to be transmitted to the business community as well. Concerned climate scientists and environmentalists have collected a wide variety of data indicating that agricultural activity based on fossil fuels is changing the climate of both the local area and at a national level as well. In the past, reported observations remained outside of the debate for the impact of climate change, but new observations have revealed startling changes that comprise a cause of genuine concern to everyone in the local community. Meanwhile, fossil fuel companies insist that the phenomenon of global warming is yet unproven and that attempts to reduce usage of fossil fuels would come at a prohibitively high economic cost to the country. While those companies also suggest that the warming will be beneficial, the state needs to update the legislative framework for businesses, especially SMEs and those of the agricultural sector, imposing heavier penalties-fines to the companies that keep producing high levels of GHGs emissions. More incentives should also be given in consensus with the EU and the banking sector to support business investments in energy savings and new technologies for cleaner energy generation and usage, GHG management and recycling.
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