Time is running out.
But an effective fight against climate change is a long time coming.
There was a lot of political criticism at a high-profile conference.
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- “Why is it not decided what would be necessary?” Junior research groups of the Bavarian Climate Research Network are investigating this question in a digital series of lectures.
Prof. Annette Menzel (TUM) is jointly responsible for the scientific concept and the research content of the network.
She represents the network in public and the professional world.
At the start of the “climate discourse”, scientists, students and interested parties spoke to Bernd Ulrich in a zoom conference.
The deputy editor-in-chief of the time is a professional observer and analyst of political operations.
What is called for is a new radical approach to political action
“We need a new radicalism in political action”, is one of Ulrich's central messages: “A radical realism” and a fundamental transformation of the resource-wasting society in all areas of life, as he said in the impulse interview with Christian Hof, bayklif research group leader at TUM, underscore. A little e-cars there, renewable energies there: Technical solutions alone, said Ulrich, are not enough to achieve the climate targets. Science can show the way, but politics must also go, so the tenor of the speakers. But, according to Ulrich's analysis, the government is caught up in the dogmas of the 20th century: a step-by-step policy, a policy of displacement and displacement, is “apparently built into the genes”. Ulrich: “In the 20thIn the century disaster arose through misdeeds, and in this century disaster arises from inaction. ”So definitely not what an existentially threatening crisis in the relationship between man and nature urgently needs.
The means are there to face the climate crisis
The means are available to effectively counteract the climate crisis with “manageable pains of change”. Ulrich has the vague hope that the coalition agreement will perforate the “walls of inactivity” to some extent. “It will probably bring us the best climate policy ever, but still far less than necessary.” Are we doing enough to convey information? The moderator put this question to the representatives of science. Anette Menzel, professor at TUM and scientific spokesperson for the bayklif network, was at the climate conference in Glasgow herself. The negotiations there, she said, “were difficult to endure” - because “there is a huge gap” between what science shows as a necessity and what is achieved through voluntary commitments. Partly because, as she said,For example, problems with animal husbandry and meat consumption are negated at a high level.
Part of the problem are "power interests"
So you don't get anywhere: part of the problem, according to Linus Mattausch (research group leader at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and member of the Junge Akademie) agree, are economic power interests, acceptance problems in society and the global south, where the greatest changes in emissions are necessary.
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“There is more approval for the climate targets than for the specific measures,” he outlined the acceptance problem in German society - for example with CO2 pricing and the city center toll.
Because that would also mean giving up a bit.
With a climate dividend (citizens' bonus), the "stress of change" of financially disadvantaged groups - according to Ulrich, a third of society - could be alleviated.
"But the majority tries to defend their over-the-top lifestyle in the name of the poor," Ulrich said.
Mattausch showed the development of financial structures for renewable energies, anti-corruption and urban planning as solutions for the global south.
GOOD TO KNOW
The digital lecture series Climate Discourses will be continued.
The appointments:
■ December 14th:
Tropical ice?
The power of art in the struggle for 1.5 degrees with photographer Barbara Dombrowski, who has been documenting the people and regions affected by climate change for years
■ January 11, 2022:
How will the energy transition work?
Social innovations as the engine of transformation With Dr.
Arwen Colell (Political Analyst, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate, Berlin)
. February 8, 2022:
10,000 fathoms of wood or a green human joy?
With Prof. Dr.
Michael Suda (Chair for Forest and Environmental Policy, TUM)
■ March 8, 2022
: Climate - Power - Gender.
The contribution of gender equality to a transformative climate policy.
With Ulrike Röhr, civil engineer and graduate sociologist, who has been dealing with women's and gender perspectives in environmental and sustainability policy for 30 years.
■ April 5, 2022:
projection of climatic extremes - oracle or science?
With Prof. Dr.
Ralf Ludwig (Chair for Geography and Geographical Remote Sensing at LMU)
■ The lectures
will take place from 6 pm as a ZOOM event: www.bayklif.de/klimadiskurse