Berlin: The world is involved in a pandemic economic collapse and a war in Ukraine, and senior officials from 40 countries meet in Berlin on Monday to seriously discuss how to stay focused on fighting climate change and tackling its consequences. I did.
Organizers said they had confidence between rich and poor countries ahead of this year’s UN Climate Summit in Egypt, after last month’s technical talks made little progress on important issues such as climate aid to developing countries. Requested a two-day rally as an opportunity to rebuild.
“Many of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries are currently experiencing serious climate impacts,” Germany’s climate envoy Jennifer Morgan told The Associated Press. And damage. We also have to show more solidarity. “
Developing countries are still waiting for wealthy countries to provide $ 100 billion in climate aid each year. This is a goal we plan to achieve by 2020.
But large pollutants have long resisted the idea that greenhouse gas emissions should pay for the destruction caused around the world.
Private talks in Berlin begin with an expert giving a presentation to the Minister on the issue of “loss and damages”. The ministers will be divided into small groups to discuss and listen to each other in the hope of building trust ahead of the United Nations in November. Summit meeting at Sharm El Sheikh.
Meetings in Berlin come as scientists say that if global warming continues, the extreme heat that has hit most of the Northern Hemisphere in the last few weeks could become a new normal for summer.
“While this conference is taking place, parts of Europe are burning and actually burning. Sadly, it’s already a familiar experience for millions of people around the world,” he concludes. Alok Sharma, a British official who led it, said. Talks on climate change this year in Glasgow. When the meeting was held, he told his delegation:
“In these uncertain times, climate change measures remain at the top of the international agenda, and the current situation is related to previous commitments, especially to support developing countries,” he said. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, who chairs the Sharm El Sheikh Summit, said.
China was attending the Congress of Berlin. Russia was not invited.
The issue of energy sources endangered by the Russian war in Ukraine is pressing for negotiations.
Environmental activists have warned that recent efforts by countries such as Germany to take advantage of new sources of fossil fuels could undermine the country’s already fragile climate behavior. Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz will discuss the purchase of liquefied natural gas from Egypt with the country’s President Abdel Fatta al-Sisi on Monday, just a few miles from where the climate talks are taking place.
“Russia’s war of aggression has forced us to make short-term decisions that we don’t like, including increased coal use for a very limited period of time,” said former head of Greenpeace International. Said Morgan.
“But we’re not only sticking to our climate goals, we’re accelerating energy transformations, and we’re phasing out the use of fossil energy more quickly,” she adds, solar and wind. Cited a newly approved plan to enhance. German generation.
Similarly, US climate envoy John Kelly will meet following President Joe Biden’s setbacks in the United States to regulate pollution and boost renewables such as wind and solar energy.
