Speech in Dubai - Scholz urges more speed for renewable energies
At the World Climate Conference, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is campaigning for a tripling of global renewable energy capacities by 2030. The expansion of renewable energies is making progress, but not at the pace that is necessary, says Scholz in Dubai.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for a global phase-out of coal, oil and gas ahead of the plenary session of the World Climate Conference in Dubai. "We must now all show a firm determination to phase out fossil fuels - first and foremost coal. We can set sail for this at this climate conference," said the SPD politician in his speech.
Scholz went on to say that it was still possible to reduce climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions in this decade to such an extent that the 1.5-degree target agreed in Paris in 2015 could be met. "But the science tells us quite clearly that we have to hurry - despite all the geopolitical tensions," he said, referring to the wars in the Gaza Strip and Ukraine, which are also a major topic at the climate conference. Climate change remains "the great global challenge of our time", emphasized Scholz.
However, there are already all the necessary means to meet this challenge. "The technologies are there: wind power, photovoltaics, electric drives, green hydrogen." Germany is driving these developments forward with vigor. "As a successful industrialized country, we want to live and work in a climate-neutral way by 2045," he said.
"Rhetorically flawless"
Scholz appealed to the almost 200 countries meeting in Dubai until mid-December to join in the energy transition. "Let's make the expansion of renewable energies the number one energy policy priority - worldwide!" Specifically, he proposed an agreement on two binding targets that are already consensus in the industrialized countries of the G20: Firstly, a tripling of the expansion of renewable energies and secondly, a doubling of energy efficiency - both by 2030.
Jan Kowalzig, climate expert at the development organization Oxfam, commented on the speech, which was delivered in German, that it was "rhetorically flawless, but rousing is different". That's no way to inspire a climate conference. And, unfortunately, the German government's policy does not fit in with the call to phase out fossil fuels: the German government is working against the Paris Agreement by building new fossil fuel infrastructure for the import of liquefied natural gas and at the same time undermining the Climate Protection Act. "The Federal Chancellor has wisely concealed this."
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Source: www.ntv.de
