The world is looking at the World Climate Conference in Glasgow, that the World Conservation Conference took place in mid-October, was noted above all by experts. The public perception of the climate crisis by far overshadows the biodiversity crisis.
The largest species extinction since the disappearance of the dinosaurs is taking place, and by the end of the century a million species could have become extinct. An existential situation, also for us humans.
Because the climate crisis is one of the most important drivers of the biodiversity crisis, both must be thought and combated much more closely together. How this can work, whether the delegates at the World Climate Conference in Glasgow understood it, and what global warming by two degrees would mean specifically for biodiversity and ecosystems, says Viviane Raddatz from WWF in the climate podcast Barometer.
In addition, the climate chief of the environmental protection organization countered the impression that the expansion of renewable energies in Germany would be in serious conflict with nature conservation. “The space for this is available in all federal states,” says Raddatz, “what is missing is good planning”. The biggest mistake from the point of view of nature conservation would now be not to push ahead with the expansion of renewables on a massive scale.
Also in the podcast: Susanne Ehlerding from Tagesspiegel Background Energy and Climate assesses German behavior at the World Climate Conference. There, Germany tended to be reluctant when it came to fossil fuels and the transport sector, and they preferred not to join an alliance to end the combustion engine. Susanne Ehlerding knows that this is not only due to the transport minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU), but also to the potential new member of the FDP government.
Jakob Schlandt, also from Tagesspiegel Background Energy and Climate, finally explains why the high energy prices have nothing to do with the CO2 price – and why a rising CO2 price has many advantages other than high world market prices.
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Episode 19 with energy economist Andreas Löschel
Episode 18 with energy researcher Volker Quaschning
Episode 17 with GermanZero managing director Julian Zuber
Episode 16 with China researcher Nis Grünberg
Episode 15 with Pauline Brünger, spokeswoman for Fridays for Future
Episode 14 with environmental medicine specialist Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann and author Katja Trippel
Episode 13 with Mareike Menneckemeyer from the Climate Citizens’ Council
Episode 12 with polar explorer Markus Rex
Episode 11 with the energy expert Patrick Graichen
Episode 10 with the forest expert Ulrich Schraml
Episode 9 with the meteorologist and climate researcher Mojib Latif
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