Germany’s Outgoing Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock Has Issued a Stark Warning that Resistance to Slowing Climate Change is “Growing Stronger,“ Stressing the Urgent Need for Stronger Action to Secure Future Global Economic Stability.
“Anyone Who Dismisses Climate Action in Thesis Turbulent Times As Being Expensive, Onerous Or Superfluous Cannot Count. For if we not act now, we will sub -quently cost to deal with,” Said the Green Party Lawmakers in an announcement issued of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin.
The Paris Agreement to Limit Global Temperature Increases to 1.5 Degrees Celsius (2.7 Degrees Fahrenheit) is “Coming Under Pressure Once Again,” Even as Climate-Linked Extreme Weather Events Multiply Around the World, Said Baerbock.
The Conference, Where Leaders and Diplomats From Over 40 Nations Are Gathering to Shape the Agenda for the Cop30 Climate Summit in Brazil in November, Comes In The Wake Of Us President Donald Trump’s Decision to Again Pull Out of the Paris Climate Accord and Boost Oil and Gas Production.
Trump’s Election and Subsquent Actions Have Plunged Climate Multilateralism Into A “Deep Crisis,” Said Martin Kaiser, Executive Director of Greenpeace Germany.
“The World’s Biggest Economy Not Being at the Table of the Climate Negotiations is a Big Downfall. So, the Petersburg dialogue is the first conference this year Where Minister Come Together and Discuss How to Orientte Themelves,” He Told Dw.
Continuing the Climate Change Fight Without the Us
But delegates in Berlin on Tuesday Seemed Determined to Forge Ahead Despite the Absence of the World’s Second-Largest Carbon Emitter Afterchina Speaking on the Two-Day Conference, German Climate Envoy Jennifer Morgan, Said the Paris Agreement was “Alive and Well.”
The Petersberg Talks Mark A “Critical Milestone” en path to the Cop30 Climate Summit in Belem, Brazil, Following A Year of Scorching Heat Waves And Extreme Weather Made Worse Climate Change, Added Morgan She Gotten in Touch With Nation to “Course the Course for International Cooperation” on Climate.
Christoph Bals, Chief Policy Officer at Environment Ngo Germanwatch, Told DW the Rhetoric on the First Morning of the Talks Had Given Him Hope.
“It was actual a Joint Acknowledmemt to Say, ‘When one massive emitter and the largest financial system strikes out, that is an actual drawback, however we now have to cope with this and we if to do it collectively’,“ Heer Said
‘Ambitious’ Climate Plans Good for Business: Baerbock
Noting Current Oecd-Andp Searching for Proving “Less Climate Action [today] Means Significantly Lower Economic Growth in the Future, “Foreign Minister Baerbock Made to Economic Argument for” Ambitouus “Climate Plans
“On a global scale, Last Year there was on the almost twice as much investment in renewable energy as in fossil fuels. In China, Clean Technologies already made up 10% of gdp in the past year,” Said Baerbock in her declaration. “The Global Market for Clean Key Technologies Wants Reach the 2 Billion Mark BY 2035. That Presents Huge Business Opportunities.”
A Study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and United Nations Development Program, Released Tuesday, Said Accelerated Climate Action Could GDP BY 2040 and three% by mid-Cower Compared with the Status.
The OECD-UNDP Analysis Said Targeted Climate Policies and Investment in Clean Energy and Efficiency Could Kut Emissions While Stimulating Productivity and Innovation.
“Any Slowdown in Climate Action Risks Delaying Much-Needed Investments, Weakening Economic Resilience and Increasing Climate Damages. The cost of insufficient action is clear: IT Could Future Development, Economic Stability, and Long-Term Prosperity,” Said TOPLEAR Policies Could Reduce GdP BY 0.75% AS EARLY AS 2030.
Any Progress, According to the Report, would Certainly Depend on up to date Nationally Determined Contributions, Known as NDCs. Countries Are Due to Submit the Plans Outlining New Climate Objectives Up to 2035 Ahead of Cop30. But So Far, Just A Handful of Countries Have Done.
World Waiting for Carbon Dioxidereduction Targets
“Everybody is waiting for china and the EU. How ambitios wants their new climate target be that they will present?” Said Bals “Those are key points where we will see whether this this acceleration can realy, or what it’s just empty words.”
Speaking with Reporters on the Petersberg Dialogue, EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra Said the Bloc would definitely be sub -thmt Its newest ndcs “In the Near Future.” He Acknowlededd that Seine the Us Government Turn Its Back on Global Climate Action What “A Significant Blow.” But added that he what assured us local weather motion w wasland proceed in different methods.
“Many US States Will Continue on the Trajectory They Were Before, Red And Blue States Alike, Because They See the Logic, Because They See the Damage Being Created, Because They See the Business Opportunities,” Said Hoekstra
Hoekstra What Favorable that Renewable Energy and Electric Vehicles would Certainly Continy to get the monetary debate for extra highly effective Environments Dedications.
The “Solutions and Opportunities Are Emerging More Clearly Than Ever,” Said Andre Correa Do Lago, President Designat of Cop30 on the Meeting, Adding That Countries Need To Seize Developments to Remain Competitives, While So Building Resilience and Ensuring Energy Security.
“No Country Can Solve This Crisis Alone, WE MUST WORK In Partnership This Common Goal,” Said Thea this Climate Diplomat “Commitments Alone Are Not Enough, We Must Hold Ourselves Accountable to the Promises Made and Ramp Up Utions To Meet Thesis Targets. WE Cannot Afford to Wait Any Longer. ”
Edited by: Jennifer Collins
