The UN climate change experts have been through in Bonn extremely tough negotiations – for ten days. The results are modest, thanks in part to an “unholy Alliance of science deniers”.
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Saudi Arabia and the US President Donald Trump sent a Delegation, have questioned at the UN climate change conference in Bonn, Germany scientific findings on global warming and the discussions as a brake is actuated. They objected to a report that highlights how important it is, the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees limit. “Saudi Arabia, the US and Iran form an unholy Alliance of science deniers,” said Greenpeace Executive Director Martin Kaiser of the German press Agency. “This Report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change is so clear in its message – any contradiction of sounds like irresponsible ignorance.”
In Bonn, it was a matter of the next UN climate change conference in Santiago de Chile to prepare. Focus of debates about the role of the world climate Council IPCC, compensation payments from richer to poorer countries to financial management were certificates already suffered damage due to the climate change and emissions trading.
“Scientific knowledge is denied”
The climate expert, bread for the world, Sabine Minninger, spoke of tough negotiations, which were not oriented to the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable countries. “Terrifying” is how the US, Saudi Arabia and some other countries refused to allow the findings of Climate scientists, to go to the necessary consequences out of the way.
The Oxfam’s climate expert Jan confirmed Kowalzig: “On pressure, especially from Saudi Arabia and the United States, the conference could not agree to integrate the scientific findings on the compliance with the major a 1.5-degree limit sufficient in the further negotiation process.” The more difficult it is now, future negotiations on this threshold align. Just the Survival from the suspension but, for example, small island States and the poorest countries in Africa.
Savings may not double count
A little further the trader also in the case of the so-called market mechanisms for the implementation of the Paris climate agreement to come. It is important that countries in climate Finance measures in other countries and in our own country, have less to do. The climate policy spokesman of the FDP group in the Bundestag, Lukas Köhler, demanded, at the world climate conference in Chile, a clear set of rules would have to be decided”, the prevent, in particular, the double billing of CO2 savings”.
It is feared that the savings is counted twice: in the country in which it takes place, and where it is funded. Some countries, such as Brazil, wanted to enforce as lax rules, said the Oxfam expert Kowalzig. Greenpeace chief Kaiser criticized: “No government should imagine that with a few forest projects or solar parks in the foreign countries own emergency measures for a quick Lowering of CO2 emissions to replace.”
“It happens not in 100 years, but now”
According to the Chilean environment Minister, Carolina Schmidt, the current heat wave in Germany the consequences of climate change in very specific terms to be felt. “This is not something that happens in 100 years, it is something we know already.” Combating climate change is not only a task for governments. “Everyone must change. And I think a lot of people are now ready because they see how climate change affects their lives.” The President of the next world climate conference in December in Santiago, Chile, showed himself grateful for the fact that in Germany so many young people for Fridays for the Future took to the streets, “because that brings governments to act”.
23. September UN climate summit held in New York; from the 2. to 13. December follows the climate change conference COP 25 in Santiago de Chile. Chile stepped in as host to Brazil, the canceled on the initiative of the President of Jair Bolsonaro, the orientation of the meeting. Open is where the conference 2020 takes place. In addition to Turkey, the UK and Italy are in the conversation.
rb/haz (dpa, kna)