With a view to the G7 summit at the end of June, leading representatives of various environmental organizations are speaking out. The demand for Olaf Scholz: A more ambitious commitment to climate protection.
Ahead of a series of important meetings of the G7 group of states, major German environmental organizations are calling on Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) to be more ambitious when it comes to climate protection.
“We are addressing you today with the urgent request that you use the summit to promote the climate protection efforts of the industrialized nations and their support of vulnerable countries in dealing with the consequences of climate change even more ambitiously than before,” write the senders with a view to the G7 Summit at the end of June in Elmau, Bavaria.
The letter is available from the German Press Agency in Berlin. It was signed by leading representatives of the German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND), Germanwatch, Greenpeace Germany, the umbrella organization Climate Alliance and WWF Germany. The G7 includes Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, the US and the UK. EU representatives also usually attend the meetings. Germany currently chairs the group of states.
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“The Russian invasion of Ukraine exacerbates the need for accelerated action on energy security and sovereignty,” the environmental organizations write. The G7 countries should ensure that increasing energy efficiency, reducing energy consumption and expanding renewable energies have priority over developing new sources of fossil fuels.
“The G7 countries should commit to phasing out coal, oil and gas in the electricity sector by 2035 as a response to the current dependence on fossil fuels of autocratic states and in view of the dramatically escalating climate crisis.”
According to the signatories, the G7 should present plans by the end of the year to increase their climate protection goals, which would be in line with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees compared to the pre-industrial age. They should phase out coal by 2030 and end subsidies for fossil fuels by 2025, the signatories demand.
In addition, Germany “as one of the historical main causes of the climate crisis” must increase spending on international climate finance, i.e. for measures to reduce greenhouse gases and adapt to climate change, to 8 billion euros annually by 2025.
Source: Stern
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