FRANKFURT (dpa-AFX) – “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” on climate policy
“Before you break the baton about Trump, it should be remembered that one of the new heroes of the global community, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, abolished the CO2 tax for Canada’s citizens. This was not easy for the former United Nations special envoy for climate protection and climate finance. At the same time, it expresses a coming of age in climate policy. (.) Climate activists may have convinced the public to take climate change seriously. But they could not convince them to pay for it. (.) The proportion of US citizens who cite climate and the environment as their most important issue has fallen from 14 percent to six percent between the beginning of 2020 and today (…) The climate crisis is competing with the affordability crisis – the latter seems to be winning.”/DP/jha