BONN (dpa-AFX) – In view of growing doubts about the chances of success of the next world climate conference in the United Arab Emirates, the federal government is making increased efforts to build a climate protection alliance. “In the next two weeks we will work together with the EU to build a broad coalition for an ambitious global climate policy so that we can make groundbreaking decisions in Dubai,” said State Secretary and Special Representative for International Climate Policy, Jennifer Morgan, on Monday . The ten-day preliminary negotiations for the world climate conference in Dubai, which begins on November 30, will start in Bonn on Monday.
The latest available data has “shown with brutal clarity that we are not doing enough and as a global community we are sleepwalking towards an abyss,” Morgan said. “The first round of negotiations since publication is taking place in Bonn, and the urgency of the report needs to carry over into the negotiations. We need to wake up and need a course correction to get on the 1.5 degree path.”
The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial times is considered increasingly unrealistic in view of previous climate protection efforts. Greenhouse gases such as CO2 released when burning gas, oil and coal are the main reason for global warming and its fatal consequences such as droughts, heat waves, hurricanes and floods./cd/DP/mis