As the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 28) takes place in Dubai, the German Government has adopted Germany’s first Strategy on Climate Foreign Policy. This brings together the climate policy goals and measures of the various ministries, defines priorities and creates a roadmap for coherent government action in climate foreign policy. It is the world’s most comprehensive strategy of this kind.
The Strategy on Climate Foreign Policy firmly aligns Germany’s actions with the Paris Agreement. The top priority is the aim to bring the world onto a 1.5°C pathway, thus preventing the worst effects of the climate crisis and securing continued prosperity and security in future. The strategy sets interministerial priorities while also defining concrete fields of action and instruments with the aim of advancing the global climate-friendly transformation. It also sends the message to the rest of the world that Germany is leading the way in international climate action and is a reliable partner, who acts in solidarity. Furthermore, it wants to show how climate action offers economic, ecological and social opportunities that are there for the taking.
More information please find here: https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/strategy-on-climate-foreign-policy/2634808
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