STORY: Note: This post will be sent to you without narration. Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD): “At the summit in Elmau, we as the G7 had already committed ourselves to the climate club. Since then we have continued to work intensively on the concept of this open, cooperative, international club and today I can say that with the adoption of the “We are now launching the climate club. I am very pleased that the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development will set up the secretariat for the climate club together with the International Energy Agency.” “And at the same time, we have of course tried to advance issues that require us to cooperate with each other in the long term. And the climate club we just discussed is a very big step from my point of view (…) because it is direct marching on the issue that if we want to be ambitious in tackling man-made climate change, if the end of it is tariff wars and similar activities, we’ve made a mistake.”