COP28
Activist Neubauer: Chancellor under pressure at climate conference
“There should be no loopholes or fake solutions,” says activist Luisa Neubauer. photo
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Around 170 heads of state and government are speaking at the World Climate Conference today and tomorrow – including the German Chancellor. Climate activists have clear ideas about what he should say in Dubai.
This also means moving forward together with the group of the most ambitious states, said the activist from the climate movement Fridays for Future. “This is the clear expectation from us and the global community of the Chancellor of the world’s fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases.”
Criticism of the climate club
Neubauer also said that mistrust of Germany’s climate policy had grown under Scholz as chancellor. “Under him, Germany has established itself as a country that undermines climate commitments that have already been made, ensures the expansion of fossil fuels worldwide and helps drive the gas hype.”
A climate club founded by Scholz, which is set to officially begin work today, has a focus on industrial policy. The member states want to exchange ideas about how climate-damaging greenhouse gases can be saved in the sector. Neubauer, who is herself a member of the Green Party, was critical of the club, which now has 33 states. “The climate club must not become a place where rich countries pat each other on the back while they desperately miss their own climate targets. With regard to Germany, there is already a fear that the budget crash will set climate policy back even further.”
On his trip to the United Arab Emirates, SPD politician Scholz will meet around 170 other heads of state and government from all over the world. 70,000 participants are registered for the mammoth two-week meeting in Dubai.