The interim negotiations will take place in Bonn before the COP28 in Dubai. Climate activists demonstrate – they want to prevent the financing of new oil, gas and coal projects.
Climate activists from Fridays for Future demonstrated in front of the congress center on the occasion of the ongoing interim negotiations for the next world climate conference in Bonn. According to a police spokesman, 130 people took part in the rally, which started in the late afternoon. The protests were peaceful and should end after a planned march in the evening, he said. As the climate protection movement announced, activists “from countries that are already most affected by the climate crisis, such as Uganda and Namibia” also traveled to the demonstration.
This Friday, the aim was to “remind the fossil parts of politics, finance and business that the age of coal, oil and gas is over,” the activist Luisa Neubauer told the German Press Agency in Berlin in advance. While the climate crisis is escalating unmistakably, lobbyists for oil, coal and gas are trying to defuse climate targets, soften language and extend fossil fuel business models under the guise of green promises. “But we won’t allow that.”
Six months before the next world climate conference COP28 in Dubai, ten-day interim negotiations began on Monday in Bonn. The negotiations are rated as particularly difficult because the host United Arab Emirates is not expected to take any steps to end energy production from oil and gas.
Source: Stern
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