Berlin (EFE)
“I bet we also agree on a global target for renewables and energy efficiency,” said Green Minister Annalena Baerbock, acknowledging that “yes, this is something new.”
That is why, he added, the participants of this two-day climate conference are “sitting here, in such a special setting”, not to describe everything that has already been done or everything that cannot be done.
The path of 1.5 degrees is the focus of the Petersberg Dialogue
“In the next day and a half we want to work on what we can do even more, also again, so that we can enter the path of 1.5 degrees,” he stressed.
At the same time, he defended in the Petersberg Dialogue that global transformation is not only the key to combat what is the “greatest security threat of this century”, but that energy transformation, renewable energies, “are also a key to greater global justice.
Looking ahead to the COP28 climate summit to be held at the end of the year in Dubai, Baerbock highlighted the need for “a change of course to place ourselves on the path of 1.5 degrees”.
For his part, the designated president of COP28, Sultan Ahmed al Jaber, pointed out that “there is no other option” than to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stressed the need to triple renewable energy capacities by 2030 and return to double them by 2040.
The industry minister of the United Arab Emirates and head of the state oil consortium Abu Dhabi National Oil Company said that it is about “keeping alive the ambitions of the Paris Agreement”.
International funding for a unity COP28
This includes making available once and for all to developing countries the €100 billion a year in international climate finance pledged by industrialized nations.
Al Jaber called to “restore political credibility to legal agreements” that have not yet been fulfilled.
“Let us offer together a COP of unity, solidarity and impact, a COP of action and a COP for all, and let us unite a divided world for the planet, for our peoples and for lasting sustainable development”, he called.
According to the minister, “the world demands transformative progress and the world needs transformative action.”
In the Petersberg Dialogue, in which the German Foreign Ministry and the United Arab Emirates act as hosts and focused on the preparations for COP28, representatives of more than 40 countries meet, including the Spanish Minister for the Ecological Transition and Third Vice President of the Government, Teresa Ribera.
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