MeterThe Federal Environment Minister looks at the new special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which will be submitted on Monday Svenya Schultz (SPD) and Federal Minister of Development Gerd Müller (CSU) called for more global cooperation in climate protection. Schultz of the Rhine Post said: “Whether we can limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees in the next ten years will be decisive.”
For global climate protection, it is no longer sufficient to “take the lead by large industrialized countries”. At the next United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow in November, it is important that as many countries as possible join the joint climate protection.The United States rejoins the Paris climate protection agreement under the leadership of the President Joe Biden Has “created new momentum”. The goal now is “This dynamic encompasses everyone in the world.”
“There is no doubt that man-made climate change”
Development minister Miller It was emphasized in the newspaper of the Funke Media Group on Monday that 92% of carbon dioxide emissions occur outside the European Union. This is why the EU must significantly expand its “Green Agreement” climate protection program. “We need a global green agreement,” Mueller said. “A lot of private investment is needed to expand renewable energy and technology transfer and industrialized countries’ investment offensive in emerging and developing countries.”
Hundreds of new coal-fired power plants are being built or planned all over the world. “In the European Union, we simply cannot save this extra carbon dioxide,” Müller said. He warned that if these “climate killers” are online, then “we will never achieve the Paris goal.”
The IPCC status report is considered to be groundbreaking in global climate policy. The first part of the new report to be released on Monday covers the scientific basis of climate change. The background is how to still achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement, which is to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees as much as possible, but at least well below 2 degrees.
Closer integration of the federal government
According to Schultz, the new report “clearly” states: “There are no longer any doubts about man-made climate change.” The report also “unambiguously stated that we must be responsible for the increasing number of extreme weather events in Germany.” Be prepared,” she told the newspaper.
Therefore, she called on the federal government to participate more closely in measures to adapt to climate change. So far, the states and municipalities are responsible for preventing floods and droughts. Schultz wants to turn it into a joint task and amend the basic law for it.
She requested that in order to speed up Germany’s climate protection work, the new federal government must “end the blockade” after the federal election in September. Specifically, she accused Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmeier (CDU) and the Union-led North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavarian governments for adopting a “delay policy” in the energy transition. She criticized Baden-Württemberg’s chancellor Winfried Kreischmann (Green Party) for not triggering a “wind energy boom.”
Climate protection activist Louisa Neubauer On Monday, the newspapers of the Network of German Editors (RND) called for a “renegotiated” party’s election plan. “They all have to meet the 1.5 degree limit,” she said. Germany is one of the “culprits” of the climate crisis, but “most parties do not have a comprehensive answer to the violent nature of the situation”.
According to RND, they are cautious about hopes for political change after the IPCC report is submitted. She criticized the previous climate reports for failing to dissuade the government from “going towards climate disaster.”
