A farmer in the Niger whose fields have dried up due to the heat. A father in Palau who does not know whether his house will still be standing when his children are grown up – or whether the rising sea levels will swallow up his village.
Mayors in Spain, Germany or Lithuania have to find a way to protect their towns and cities from a water shortage and ever more dangerous floods.
Regardless of which country you look at in the world, one crisis is evident everywhere: the climate crisis. This crisis is the greatest security challenge of our age. It affects us all – with varying degrees of severity but with the same relentlessness.
What gives me hope is that we have the knowledge, the technology as well and the instruments to contain the climate crisis together. What we need is political will.
In 2015, the international community showed this will and paved the way for a new, climate-neutral world by adopting the Paris Agreement. Almost 170 countries set themselves ambitious climate targets back then. The expansion of renewable energies has accelerated dramatically.
