In the opinion of the former Federal Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer (CDU), Germany's climate policy is geared too much towards its own country.
"With us, climate policy ends more or less at national borders," said Töpfer on Wednesday at the Bodensee Business Forum of the "Schwäbische Zeitung" in Friedrichshafen.
"In this crisis there is a bloom of nationalism when it really needs a bloom of multilateralism."
Friedrichshafen - Solutions in the fight against climate change and the corona pandemic can only be found if you work together, said Töpfer.
It is also about the consequences of human intervention in the environment: "I am very concerned that we will find this dissolution of human-animal relationships in the form of new diseases." Dpa