Germany’s vice chancellor is touring to Washington for talks with U.S. officers that may give attention to vitality safety and the necessity to ramp up renewable vitality provides within the wake of Russia’s assault on Ukraine.
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The invasion of Ukraine final week was sharply condemned by Berlin, which joined different Western nations in imposing sanctions in opposition to Russia and halted the Nord Stream 2 fuel pipeline mission.
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Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who can also be Germany’s financial system and local weather minister, mentioned Monday that better emphasis on vitality independence may assist efforts to scale back emissions of planet-heating greenhouse gases launched by burning fossil fuels.
“The one types of vitality that don’t belong to anybody, the place no one can say ‘it’s all mine and I’m going to blackmail you with,’ are wind and photo voltaic,” he instructed reporters.
“What we have been discussing a half a yr in the past when it comes to decreasing carbon dioxide emissions we’re now discussing when it comes to vitality safety and sovereignty,” mentioned Habeck, who is because of meet with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Power Secretary Jennifer Granholm, White Home nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan and local weather envoy John Kerry throughout his two-day journey.
In a particular session of parliament Sunday, Germany’s finance minister mentioned the federal government would place better emphasis on vitality safety within the coming years in mild of the warfare in Ukraine.
“Renewable vitality releases us from dependence,” Christian Lindner mentioned. “That’s why renewable vitality is freedom vitality.”
U.N. Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres mentioned Monday on the launch of a brand new report by the worldwide physique’s local weather science panel that “present occasions make all too clear, our continued reliance on fossil fuels makes the worldwide financial system and vitality safety weak to geopolitical shocks and crises.”
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“As an alternative of slowing down the decarbonization of the worldwide financial system, now could be the time to speed up the vitality transition to a renewable vitality future,” he mentioned.