Global Climate Action Summit adds pressure on Germany and EU to act – NGO

The non-governmental Global Climate Action Summit in California brings together representatives of private companies and cities from around the world and adds pressure on the German government and the European Union to step up their efforts to comply with the Paris Climate Agreement, the environmental NGO WWF says in a press release. WWF Germany’s climate and energy expert Michael Schäfer says German Chancellor Angela Merkel cannot stick with her rejection of more ambitious EU climate goals, because Germany otherwise “gambles away its international credibility, its competitiveness, and risks its readiness for the future.” The least the government could do now was to implement its promises on climate made in the coalition agreement, namely introduce “tax support for building modernisation and the additional auctions for 8 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy by 2020.”

Find the press release in German here.

For background on the Katowice COP read the CLEW article Poland's Katowice COP: Next coal country hosting UN climate talks.