German Environment Minister: Time to save the planet is running out

German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze has called for a rapid reversal of the use of coal, oil and gas and the expansion of solar and wind energy, following the release of the new report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

"There are already enough wake-up calls...the IPCC report presented today reminds us once again that the time to save the planet, as we know it, is running out," Schulze said Monday in Berlin.

 The report made it clear that many of the effects of climate change are no longer avoidable today. “As an international community, we can only prepare and adapt as best we can," Schulze said. We are witnessing the same thing here in Germany: catastrophic flooding after heavy rains last July, and a continuous drought for the past years.”

 Describing climate protection as a "vital" task, Schulze said: "It is now up to us to turn the 2020s into a decade to protect the climate and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees if possible. It's not too late for that. We know how we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions: by rapidly moving away from coal, oil and gas, while expanding solar, wind and green hydrogen production as an environmentally friendly source of energy.”

 Schulze said the UN climate summit in Glasgow in three months is the crucial moment the international community must respond to. settled.”

 German Scientific Research Minister Anja Karlicic spoke of a warning sign that can no longer be ignored. “Thanks to improved observations, measurements and climate models, there is no longer the slightest doubt that we humans are changing the climate around the world,” she said.

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