When the train of diplomacy the device to stutter, it is good to have a place of movement. The way to get there is at the climate change conference in the Polish Katowice short, just three hundred meters long. He leads you through a winding lock, the Congress centre of the negotiations with the pavilion, we say: the hope.
Here it to and fro as in an Arab Suk. It will be discussed, informed, referenced. Thousands of people are crowding the tent. Most of them have nothing to do with the outcome of the climate negotiations. On your Badges, which you wear around your neck, it means: an observer. They belong to environmental – and development organisations, Business institutions, entrepreneurs, or representatives of indigenous peoples. You want to teach and learn, what heats up, so does the world, according to climate researchers at a dangerous pace.
Indonesia has secured the best place. The island state welcomes the guests in the “pavilion of hope” as the first country, and presents itself as a holiday fair. Colorful sun umbrellas, young women in traditional dresses, pictures of beautiful landscapes and a piano player. Wants to be served coffee, tea and high-gloss brochures on climate change and the government’s plans to fight it. A spirit of optimism.
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Since the contract States decided three years ago in the Paris agreement, that not only the rich, industrialized countries for global climate protection are responsible, but the entire world, each individual state must do its part, appears to have taken motion in the lame global climate operation changed. At least one gets this impression on the market of the solutions in Katowice.
It is not so long, since climate conferences were primarily political struggles were reflected in the actions of the environmental movement. In The Hague, Netherlands, 18 years ago, activists also built a dam made of sand bags from the Congress centre to the coast, to warn of the rise of the sea level. Or Greenpeace captured the high chimneys of a coal-fired power plant in Poznan, Poland. In Copenhagen In 2009, hundreds of thousands took to the street to protest against the governments and their little ambitious climate policy.
In political protest actions it is not missing today. But they have become smaller. In Katowice is sabotaged under a US event, of clean fossil energy. As it is marked in a niche of the Congress building, “climate justice for all”. However, the digitalization has also held in the case of environmental organizations such as the feeder, for a long time Social Media has become their big stage.
All want to present
In recent years, however, came a new Element: The world should know what is already done and soon feasible. India has been spared in Katowice no cost to demonstrate with elaborate projections, such as the network of renewable energy supply is growing. A Japanese engineer, explains in a red jumpsuit, a new Wind turbine, the produced even in the case of a Typhoon power, China is developing highly efficient electric motors, Russia plans to the greenhouse gases in the production of bauxite-to reduce degradation, African countries, forestry, and Saudi Arabia is developing more efficient internal combustion engines. Also, Europe has issued its appearance with the United Kingdom, a self-driving electric vehicle. And the EU is signed in your pavilion with clever presentations the way in the post-fossil fuel society.
these are merely trifles in the great Whole, of a proposed worldwide energy Revolution. But here is the message: All pulling on the same rope. “Together for Change” is the Motto at the climate change conference in Katowice. “What is important is that the governments are convinced that you can achieve something,” says Nate Hultman from the Maryland University in the USA in one of the many lectures and panel discussions, offered in Katowice. And takes his country as an example.
U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed a few weeks ago at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires that the United States will get out of the Paris climate agreement. The United States is not on the outside, assures the scientist from Maryland. On The Contrary. “Over 3,500 U.S. cities and business climate have made promises in the Paris agreement,” says Nate Hultman. They represent at least 60 percent of the U.S. economy.
Sustainable cities are significantly surprised
in General, how many cities and businesses around the world have already made promises. They would make their promises come true, is attributed to pre-in this event, the States parties to the Paris agreement on rates. Want to be called: greenhouse gases would decline in such a way that the climate objective remain significantly under a global warming of 2 degrees over pre – industrial times to – back in range. The latest estimates are in accordance with the research organisation Climate Action Tracker at 3 degrees.
Nate Hultman belongs to the small group that wants to back the picture of the climate-sceptical American in the right light. In previous years, the world’s second-largest producer of greenhouse gases after China, a major Forum for scientists and diplomats on the situation of the world thought. Today, it is the only system of government of the major producers, which is lacking in Katowice. Now there is “Panda-Hub”, the small debate room of the American WWF. There, U.S. mayors and entrepreneurs, and to announce their contribution to global climate protection.
The fossil energy is getting subsidized, even the world, with about 400 billion dollars a year.
But where euphoria reigns, there is also disappointment. Who is whether the upbeat mood lifted a little, and quickly lands back on the ground of reality. In addition to numerous solutions, there are as many problems in the “pavilion of hope”. Richard Birdle is not the best picture of the global energy market. “There is a Revolution in renewable energy, the technology is ready for the market, but a barrier is the subsidization of fossil energy,” says the expert from the canadian International Institute for sustainable development.
last year, about 400 billion dollars invested in promoting and cheapening of oil, Gas and coal. “No one wants to subsidize renewable energy, but as long as the fossil is supported, there is nothing left otherwise.” For comparison, The industrialized countries must generate in accordance with the climate agreement from 2020, hundreds of billions of dollars to support the poorest countries in climate protection.
The Tour through the market of hope has confidently begun, remained, however, great skepticism about whether the global climate protection comes at an opportune time in the swing. There is also the joy of life of Indonesians does not help. Behind the advertising backdrop in the small Atrium are not offered solutions, but these are in demand. “We know only little about the peat bogs in Indonesia and the Management of these landscapes”, presents a scientist in front of a few listeners. The largest carbon reservoir in Southeast Asia is in the bottoms of the peat swamp forests of Indonesia. Billions of tons of carbon dioxide to escape a year by draining. “The laws are strict,” says the scientist. But implementation hapere.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 12.12.2018, 20:36 PM
