The topic of climate protection is keeping Angela Merkel's government in suspense: Joe Biden's climate officer John Kerry is coming to Berlin on Monday.
He demands action.
Berlin / Washington - Joe Bidens * US climate protection officer John Kerry comes to Germany on Monday (May 17).
In the late afternoon, Kerry is supposed to land in Berlin - and then have a personal meeting with Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD).
According to the ministry, it will be about the global fight against climate change, specifically also about the question of how we can succeed in obliging countries such as Russia, China or South Africa to higher climate targets *. German-American cooperation in the areas of climate and energy should also play a role in the talks.
It was only at the weekend that Kerry hinted at an at least symbolic political hit for the climate summit in Glasgow at the end of the year: According to his information, Pope Francis could visit the climate meeting.
"I think his voice will be important on the way to and at the Glasgow conference, which I think he hopes to attend," said the US Democrat after a meeting with the pontiff on Saturday.
The Archdiocese of Glasgow then tweeted that Francis wanted to travel to Glasgow for the summit.
John Kerry in Germany: Biden government wants to see action - a series of climate talks in 2021
But until then it will take almost six months.
One focus of the international climate consultations in the coming week is the digital meeting of the G7 environment ministers under the British Presidency.
In addition to Kerry and the German Environment Minister, the British Environment Minister George Eustice will also take part in the ministers' deliberations on Thursday and Friday.
The virtual conference serves to prepare for the World Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China, which is scheduled for October.
According to the Federal Environment Ministry, the environment ministers of the G7 countries, which also include France, Italy, Canada and Japan, want to discuss a common line for the protection of global biodiversity.
At the “One Planet Summit” climate summit in Paris at the beginning of the year, Germany undertook, together with other countries, to put 30 percent of land and sea areas under protection by 2030.
This global goal, to which more than 50 countries have already committed, is expected to be adopted in Kunming in October.
The USA is currently putting pressure on to adhere to ambitious climate plans.
The Federal Republic had recently sharpened the climate law - to the displeasure of landlords in the country.
Kerry puts pressure on the climate: focus on Brazil and Bolsonaro
At the end of the week, Kerry had called on Brazil to fight climate change and preserve the Amazon.
"Brazil is one of the ten largest economies in the world and a regional leading power, the country has a responsibility to lead," said Kerry of the Brazilian newspaper
Folha de S. Paulo
on Thursday evening US time.
Observe the measures that the government of President Jair Bolsonaro * promised at the virtual climate summit of US President Joe Biden.
“The words must be followed by concrete action in the short term.” Bolsonaro had promised that Brazil would end illegal logging by 2030.
However, preliminary figures from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) showed that 581 square kilometers were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon region in April - 43 percent more than in April 2020. Brazil, with a share the size of Western Europe, has a large part of the Amazon region, that counts as CO2 storage *. The South American country is therefore assigned a key role in climate protection. (
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