London’s U-turn on climate policy sends a fatal signal to the rest of the world. The chances of States sufficiently correcting their course at the Lima World Conference in Dubai are visibly diminishing.
Vienna. In fact, last week should have been a great mass for climate protectors. “Climate Week” took place in New York and, at the United Nations General Assembly, state leaders also promised to fight climate change more effectively. In his speech, US President Joe Biden recited a long list of this year’s natural disasters and called for an end to dependence on fossil raw materials as quickly as possible. As always, UN Secretary-General António Guterres tried something more drastic: humanity has opened “the door to hell”, thundered the 74-year-old Portuguese. The headlines still belonged to someone else.