How does effective climate protection work? Here is a suggestion that is not likely to be considered at the Paris Climate Summit:

“In fact, the most efficient way to increase climate protection would be for the West to support India and other emerging countries with money and technology to quickly move away from coal-fired power generation. But within the Paris Climate Agreement, such considerations play hardly any role. Instead, each signatory state is to achieve climate neutrality for itself – no matter how costly it is to avoid the last few percent of emissions in an already largely climate-neutral economy. The climate doesn’t care whether CO2 is saved in Duisburg, Detroit or Delhi – the main thing is that the greenhouse gas does not get into the atmosphere.”

– S. Gusbeth, C. Herwartz, S. Kersting, K. Kort, M. Peer, O. Scheer, K. Stratmann and K. Witsch (from Beijing, Düsseldorf, Berlin, New York, Bangkok and Brussels) in “Bye-bye, Climate Protection”, Handelsblatt from 14., 15., 16. June 2024, page 48, No. 113

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