Quick Glance: UN Climate Conference Calls for Fossil Fuel Exit
- The global community meets at the 28th World Climate Conference in Dubai to negotiate international climate policy.
- For the first time, the global community is calling for a departure from fossil fuels at a UN climate conference.
- Countries like Germany are not successful in their demand for a global exit from coal, oil, and gas.
- Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock sees a strong, continent-spanning alliance for the exit from fossil fuels.
COP28: Germany and Emirates: $200 million for climate damage
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From the EU's point of view, "what must come out of this COP is to herald the end of fossil fuels," said German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Bündnis ... Show more
German foreign minister: Global renewables, energy efficiency targets needed
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Quick Glance: At COP 27, the United States agreed to assist poorer countries in combating climate change.
- World leaders from affluent countries, including the United States, decided Sunday at the United Nations COP 27 climate meeting in Egypt to establish a fund for poorer nations, reversing a 30-year reluctance to establish such a fund, according to the New York Times.
- It also includes a provision stating that poor countries cannot sue affluent countries for these payments.
- Since the 1992 treaty, poor countries have advocated the establishment of a "loss and damage fund," facilitated by the UN.
- Prior to this year's conference, Scotland was the only developed nation to volunteer to begin contributing to other countries' "loss and damage."
Quick Glance: UN Secretary-General at climatic Conference: "We are on the road to climate hell."
- Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt - UN Secretary-General António Guterres offered a grim warning about the catastrophic effects of global warming at the World Climate Conference in Egypt.
- "António Guterres is a strong voice in the fight against the climate crisis - voices like many others are needed to finally make bold progress in climate protection," Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen remarked.
- He was also a "security policy imperative," according to Scholz.
- "We can still win this fight," Kerry declared.
In the fight against climate change, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) has called on all states to switch to renewable energies quickly.
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Quick Glance: Public Broadcasting: Ideology as Director
- Diversity of political opinions in public broadcasters
- Activists portraying regular citizens in MDR election arena
- Hidden political agenda at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
- No criminals in public broadcasting