The climate researcher Latif accuses international politics of collective failure: The climate problem has been virtually ignored in recent decades. As far as the fight against global warming is concerned, the expert is anything but optimistic.
Climate researcher and meteorologist Mojib Latif is convinced that the goal of limiting global warming to a maximum of 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels can no longer be achieved. Probably not even two degrees would be achieved, said the President of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg to the newspapers of the Bayern media group. “If you take what politicians are currently doing around the world, we’re more on the three-degree course.”
“We are approaching the point where you have to admit: time is up,” added the scientist. International politics have failed across the board, despite Paris and other conferences. Currently, the world has already reached a good one degree of warming. “Three degrees would be a disaster.”
Latif accused politicians of inaction. The climate researcher complained that there are always more important things than environmental protection. “Globally, we have practically ignored the climate problem in the last few decades,” he said.
Representatives from more than 40 countries met in Berlin today, Monday, to prepare the next world climate conference at the end of the year as part of the Petersberg climate dialogue. Germany and Egypt are co-hosts of the meeting at the Federal Foreign Office.
