Drought, forest fires, floods: the world is well on the way to missing the 1.5-degree target, warns climate researcher Mojib Latif – and sees politics as a duty.
Berlin – Before the meeting of the so-called Petersberg climate dialogue, the researcher Mojib Latif sees bleak prospects for the development of the world climate.
The goal of limiting global warming to a maximum of 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial times can no longer be achieved, said the meteorologist and climate researcher at Mediengruppe Bayern. “With today’s emissions of greenhouse gases, we will break this mark in just under ten years,” estimated Latif. You probably won’t even get two degrees. “If you take what politics is currently doing around the world, we’re more on the course of three degrees.”
“We are approaching the point where you have to admit: time is up,” said the researcher. Three degrees of global warming would be a “catastrophe”. The climate researcher complains that there are always more important things than environmental protection.
In Berlin on Monday, ministers and representatives from around 40 countries will discuss the course to be taken in the fight against climate change. Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will also speak at the meeting of the so-called Petersberg Climate Dialogue. Germany and Egypt are the organizers of the two-day meeting in Berlin, which is also intended to set the course for the COP27 world climate conference in early November in the Egyptian coastal town of Sharm el Sheikh. dpa
