On Monday it will be really loud at the climate conference for the first time. Activists interfere with chants a performance of Trump’s climate advisor. There is also criticism of Germany.
Trump’s energy and climate consultant Preston Wells Griffith was disturbed by environmentalists at the convention center in Kattwitz on Monday to hold a lecture. Shortly after the demonstrators chanted „Shame on you“ and held up a banner that said, „Let it be in the ground“ – meaning fossil fuels like coal and oil. Among other things, Trump believes that energy policy will make a comeback of climate-damaging coal power.
The climate expert from Brot für die Welt, Sabine Minninger, accused the US and other states of acting as brakiers, wanting to remove the concerns of the most vulnerable states from the Paris Agreement rules. „The reason is their fear of being held accountable with compensation payments.“ It is unacceptable „that Germany and the EU are silent, while the legitimate interests of poor countries are getting bogged down in the climate negotiations“.
Large fashion and sporting goods companies such as Adidas, Esprit, Levi’s, H & M and Puma committed themselves at the UN Climate Change Conference to voluntarily significantly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The long-term goal is to reduce emissions of climate-damaging gases that cause global warming to zero net by 2050, as stated in the Charter signed.
