BERLIN (Washington Insider Magazine) – Top officials from 40 nations gathered Monday in Berlin for in-depth discussions on how to maintain focus on combating climate change and managing its consequences. The world is currently hurting from the economic effects of the pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine.
Prior to this year’s U.N. climate conference in Egypt, organizers have hailed the 2-day conference as a chance to restore trust between wealthy and developing nations after technical meetings last month made little headway on key concerns including climate funding for developing nations.
According to Jennifer Morgan, Germany’s climate envoy, many of the poorest and most vulnerable nations in the world are facing severe climate consequences right now. The issue is how to help them when they really suffer losses and damages as well as when they adjust to those affects. “We also need to be more united.”
Rich nations were supposed to give $100 billion in yearly climate funding to developing countries by 2020, but they are still waiting.
However, large polluters have long rejected the notion that they should be held accountable for the damage that their greenhouse gas emissions are creating in other parts of the world.
In order to establish confidence before the United Nations summit in Sharm el-Sheikh in November, experts will speak on the subject of damage and loss to ministers during the first session of the behind-closed-doors discussions in Berlin, according to ABC NEWS.
The Berlin meeting takes place as experts warn that if global warming continues, the severe heat that has slammed huge portions of the northern hemisphere in recent weeks might become the new norm in summer.
The negotiations are overshadowed by the issue of energy supply being threatened by Russia’s conflict in Ukraine.
Environmentalists caution that recent efforts by nations like Germany to access new fossil fuel sources might undermine nations’ already precarious climate policies. Only a few kilometers from where the climate negotiations are being conducted, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is anticipated to discuss purchasing liquefied natural gas from Egypt with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday in Berlin.
John Kerry, the U.S. envoy on climate change, also attends the conference in response to President Joe Biden’s failures to control pollution and advance renewable energy sources like solar and wind energy at home.