After the frustrating result of the COP27 climate summit in Egypt, which ended on Saturday, the Austrian head of state Alexander Van der Bellen is also disappointed. The “agreement reached” is sobering. It “failed to agree on more ambitious emission reduction targets”. “The world is not on the right track,” said the 78-year-old. Our survival is at stake.
Alexander Van der Bellen reported to the climate summit from his home office. He announced his illness due to corona on Saturday.
The meager result – it was decided to create a fund for climate damage – prompted him to tweet an unusually sharp tone. The result is a “glitter of hope” and an “important step towards climate justice”. But he has “the impression that many people do not realize that our very existence is at stake”.
The 12-day climate conference with political leaders from around the world ended Saturday in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh. Efforts to combat greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate catastrophes are not being stepped up. In their closing statement, the 200 or so states also reaffirmed their earlier decision to phase out coal. A farewell to oil and gas is not mentioned.
‘Climate policy flop of the special class’
Environmental protection organizations such as GLOBAL2000, but with the WWF, strongly criticized the meager results of the conference. It was a “lost year for climate protection”, the climate conference had remained “without a timetable because of the crisis”. The FPÖ also described the results as “lip service” and a “climate policy flop in a league of its own”.
Source: Krone
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