EU-wide/Brussels – The setting ministers of the 27 EU member states try on Monday in Luxembourg to discover a frequent place – with regard to the UN Local weather Convention COP29 in Azerbaijan. A sticking level is the totally different attitudes in direction of nuclear energy. On the convention itself, which is able to happen from November 11 to 22 within the Azerbaijani capital Baku, the problem of local weather financing is prone to play an necessary function.
It’s in regards to the query of how developed industrial nations – just like the EU nations – financially assist creating nations in local weather safety measures and adapting to the results of local weather change. The EU insists that not solely the traditionally industrialized nations ought to contribute, but additionally different now developed industrial nations ought to do their half. “We even have to make sure that others who’re capable of pay take duty,” expressed EU Local weather Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra earlier than at present’s assembly to journalists.
On the final local weather convention COP28 in Dubai a couple of 12 months in the past, for the primary time, a transfer away from fossil fuels comparable to oil, fuel, and coal was basically recorded within the conclusions. Along with renewables, nuclear vitality was additionally assigned a task, which Austria usually rejects.
Not mentioning nuclear energy this time can be “a step backward,” mentioned France’s Local weather Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher on Monday. If you wish to obtain local weather neutrality, “it’s a must to use all levers”. Precedence needs to be given to phasing out coal energy.
Austria’s Local weather Minister Leonore Gewessler (Inexperienced) noticed it in a different way. “What has delivered emissions reductions up to now and can ship them sooner or later are renewable energies,” she said on corresponding inquiry from press representatives and mentioned – with out instantly naming nuclear energy: “We must always concentrate on the vitality varieties that really contribute and never people who promise to do one thing however by no means ship something.” (14.10.2024)
