The negotiations at the UN climate change conference in Katowice, Poland, proved to be again extremely tough. Nevertheless, it is important that the annual mammoth Meetings continue to take place, says Jens Thurau.
Yes, the question put by the well-known German climate researcher Hans Joachim Schellnhuber these days, is entitled: Suck these mammoth climate conferences with Thousands of participants, and the inevitable night of negotiations at the end of even to the global climate problem is to be addressed really? Especially when the result only of the industry professionals to communicate and the climate gases since the beginning of the nineties – since the beginning of the meeting on Climate change – unaffected increased?
States refuse to
The contradiction between the dramatic warnings of the scientists and what the politicians are doing to combat climate change, can bring to the mind. In many of the States with coal production, also in Germany, the Renewable energies, in the meantime, a high share of electricity production. But still, coal is cheap and without, as long as the climate gases are not taxed enough. And against any such taxes, even against a politically prescribed stop of coal and Oil, to fight back the Arab States, the United States, Russia, the Eastern Europeans and, unfortunately, Germany.
DW-climate expert Jens Thurau
And that, even though all the experts know that The days of coal are numbered, and new investments. But it is the cold days the business. And everywhere, the emissions from the car traffic, the airplanes, the ships are on the rise. And that’s why is currently little progress in climate protection.
Alternatively, Lots Of Meetings
Good for the mammoth meeting? It is best to consult the delegates of the Marshall Islands, Fiji and many countries in Africa. Only here, at the climate conferences of the United Nations, they have a Forum where you are listened to if they report the threat to their existence. And, in Katowice is not so in the foreground: Until 2020 the States to raise $ 100 billion per year for climate protection. 80 billion, so estimates are now already there. Money that would not exist without the climate meeting.
And finally, the Climate belonging to the few remaining forums for the multilateral attempt to solve global problems, under the umbrella of the United Nations. That’s why the UN has urged Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, the delegates in Katowice, multiple times, to some.
Maybe it will only be in a few decades, what meetings have brought the excruciatingly arduous Climate. Climate change is a global Problem and can only be solved together. This is often said, but it is also simply not true. In 2020, the Paris Treaty enters into force, it is the only Instrument in the international climate protection. And that’s why the mammoth conferences must go on, all the shortcomings notwithstanding.