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Saudi Arabia and the delegation sent by US President Donald Trump questioned scientific findings on global warming at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn and acted as brakeman during the deliberations. They turned against a report highlighting the importance of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees. "Saudi Arabia, the United States and Iran form an unholy alliance of science deniers," said Greenpeace Managing Director Martin Kaiser of the German Press Agency. "This report of the IPCC is so clear in its message – any contradiction sounds like irresponsible ignorance."
In Bonn, it was about preparing the next UN Climate Change Conference in Santiago de Chile. Key topics included debates on the role of the IPCC, compensation payments from richer to poorer countries to tackle the damage already suffered as a result of climate change and emissions trading.
"Scientific findings denied"
Bread for the World's Climate Expert, Sabine Minninger, spoke of tough negotiations that were not geared to the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable states. "Frightening" is how much the US, Saudi Arabia and some other countries have rejected the findings of climate scientists in order to avoid the necessary consequences.
Oxfam climate expert Jan Kowalzig confirmed: "Under pressure from Saudi Arabia and the US in particular, the conference could not agree to sufficiently integrate the scientific evidence on compliance with the important 1.5-degree boundary into the ongoing negotiation process . " This makes it difficult to align future negotiations on this threshold. But it depends, for example, on the survival of small island states and the poorest countries in Africa.
Savings must not count twice
The negotiators have barely advanced any further in the so-called market mechanisms for the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement. The issue is that countries can finance climate protection measures in other countries and do less in their own country. The climate policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, Lukas Köhler, demanded that the "Climate Change Conference in Chile" stipulate "clear rules that, in particular, prevent the double counting of CO2 savings".
It is feared that the savings will be counted twice: in the country where it is going and where it is being financed. Some countries, such as Brazil, wanted to enforce lax rules, Oxfam expert Kowalzig said. Greenpeace chief Kaiser criticized: "No government can imagine, with a few forest projects or solar parks abroad to replace their own emergency measures for a rapid lowering of CO2 emissions."
"It does not happen in 100 years, but now"
According to Chilean Minister of the Environment Carolina Schmidt, the current heatwave in Germany makes the consequences of climate change very tangible. "This is not something that happens in 100 years, it's something we already know." The fight against climate change is not just a task for governments. "Everyone needs to change, and I think many people are willing to do that because they see how climate change affects their lives." The President of the next World Climate Change Conference in Santiago de Chile in December was grateful that so many young people took to the streets for Fridays for Future in Germany, "because that makes governments act."
On September 23, a UN climate summit will take place in New York; From the 2nd to the 13th of December the climate conference COP 25 will take place in Santiago de Chile. Chile jumped in as host for Brazil, which canceled the meeting at the instigation of President Jair Bolsonaro. It is open where the conference 2020 will take place. In addition to Turkey, Britain and Italy are in discussion.
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