President János Áder on Monday discussed climate and consumer-friendly energy production with Attila Chikán Jr, the CEO of energy services company Alteo and head of the Business Council for Sustainable Development in Hungary. In his podcast dubbed Blue Planet (Kék bolygó) Áder noted the European Union’s pledge to become climate neutral by 2050. Hungary emitted 68 million tonnes of carbon dioxide on 2018, and aims to reduce that to 7 million tonnes, he said. Chikán said those goals must be achieved in the interest of future generations. If large emitters don’t change course, quality of life will deteriorate in desert and equatorial areas so much that the people there “will have to flee their countries”, he warned. Other countries could be swallowed by rising seas, he added.