News Digest Item
17 Feb 2017

No security without climate protection

Zeit Online

The G20 foreign ministers will have to talk about global warming at their meeting in Bonn, as climate change increasingly is a threat to world peace, writes Christoph Bals of environmental NGO Germanwatch in a guest article for Zeit Online. “The intensity and extent of weather extremes increase due to climate change. Their role as a risk amplifier could already be seen in many crises that have kept the world on its toes over the past years,” writes Bals. He hopes that the new US administration will intensify global cooperation to contain the global and regional risks of climate change.

Read the guest article in German here.

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