Climate summit in Berlin: 1.3 trillion for climate protection until 2035!

Climate summit in Berlin: 1.3 trillion for climate protection until 2035!

On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, André Corrêa do Lago, the designated president of the next World Climate Conference in Brazil, opened the Petersberg climate dialogue in Berlin. In his speech, he emphasized the need for international cooperation, solidarity and energy in the fight against the earth heating. The dialogue takes place in the Federal Foreign Office until Wednesday and prepares the World Climate Conference in autumn, in which a central topic will be the procurement of $ 1.3 trillion climate finance by 2035. This sum has already been promised at the last World Climate Conference in Baku.

Corrêa do Lago particularly emphasized the role of private investments in climate protection and adaptation to climate change. He made it clear that it is important to strengthen the partnership between governments, companies and multilateral institutions. The majority of private climate protection money currently flows into industrialized countries. Part of the required $ 1.3 trillion could be financed by taxes for air and shipping and taxes on fossil fuels, even if Corrêa do Lago did not go into fossil fuels directly in his speech.

challenges and goals

This date of discussion takes place in connection with the first calendar year above the 1.5 degree limit and the emergency of the United States from the Paris Agreement. Jennifer Morgan, a leading climate diplomat from Germany, described the situation as challenging, but emphasized that the Parisian agreement remains strong. Luisa Neubauer, climate activist, reported on a "defensive" mood compared to the exit and defense of the 1.5-degree goal.

Another topic in Berlin is the climate target of the European Union. EU Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra announced that the EU climate target will no longer be decided in March in 2040. The EU Commission is currently negotiating with the member states about this goal, with Ursula von der Leyen that the EU emits 90 percent less CO2 by 2040 than in 1990. Resistance comes in particular from Poland and Italy. In this context, the Centrum Centrum Menapfabrik for European Politics suggests a reduction of between 78 and 88 percent, while the EU Commission's climate science advisory board recommends a reduction of 90 to 95 percent.

The Paris Agreement in Focus

The "Convention of Paris", which was decided on December 12, 2015 at the World Climate Conference in Paris, forms the basis for the current discussions. 195 countries have undertaken to contain climate change and to redesign the global economic structure of climate -friendly. The three main objectives of the agreement are the limitation of the increase in global average temperature, the reduction of emissions and adaptation to climate change and the steering of funds in accordance with the climate protection goals. The aim is to restrict the temperature rise to a maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre -industrial level, and no more climate -damaging gases may be expelled by the middle of the century than with carbon sinks.

In order to be successful, a quick and consistent decarbonization of the global economy, as well as a billion -dollar deflection of global financial flows, is required in sustainable investments. In particular, developing countries must be supported financially and by knowledge and technology transfer. In contrast to the Kyoto protocol, the Paris climate agreement binds all countries on earth and requires the development of a national climate contribution (NDC), whose progress must be reported regularly. The agreement came into force in November 2016 after a rapid ratification process, and at the end of 2018 a comprehensive set of rules was passed for implementation. The EU decided in 2019 the European Green Deal to enforce these climate goals.

Overall, the international community faces significant challenges, but the will for cooperation and action is clearly evident in the Framework of the Petersberg climate dialogue.