News Digest Item
20 Apr 2017

“Clear position on climate protection”

WWF Germany

Environmental NGO WWF Germany is calling on the G20 finance ministers to show a clear commitment to climate protection at the upcoming meeting in Washington, DC., after they made no mention of the issue in the communiqué that followed their last meeting. If the finance sector ignores economic changes resulting from climate protection efforts by governments around the world, a new global financial crisis will unfold, warns WWF Germany's Sustainable Finance director, Matthias Kopp.

Read the press release in German here.

For background read the CLEW article Germany keeps pushing for G20 climate focus.

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