Germany calls for joint climate saving efforts with Russia at upcoming COP27

Record ID: 1693120

  • Title: Germany calls for joint climate saving efforts with Russia at upcoming COP27
  • Date: 14th October 2022
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (OCTOBER 13, 2022) (REUTERS) GERMAN GOVERNMENT’S CLIMATE ISSUES ENVOY, FORMER GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JENNIFER MORGAN LISTENING TO REPORTER’S QUESTION STARS ON EUROPEAN UNION FLAG (SOUNDBITE) (English) GERMAN GOVERNMENT’S CLIMATE ISSUES ENVOY, JENNIFER MORGAN, SAYING (on RUSSIA): “Well, they attend. I was just at the pre-COP last week in Kinshasa and there was a Russian representative there and that person was just a participant. There was not a destructive mode there. They’re another party and we have to show that we can move forward together. So we’ll see what they do at the COP. They’re a party just like any other party.” MORGAN’S ARMS (SOUNDBITE) (English) GERMAN GOVERNMENT’S CLIMATE ISSUES ENVOY, JENNIFER MORGAN, SAYING (on EXPECTATIONS): “I think it will take a lot of good will of countries to show that multilateralism works. I think it will take solidarity of developed countries with developing countries and a readiness to drive forward the energy transformation to renewables and energy efficiency.” MORGAN SPEAKING TO REPORTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) GERMAN GOVERNMENT’S CLIMATE ISSUES ENVOY, JENNIFER MORGAN, SAYING (on WORLD BANK HEAD): “We need people at the head of these very important institutions that understand climate science and therefore can have financial institutions playing a very active role in driving the transformation on climate change. I think we’re at a moment actually where the whole international financial institutions that came to be after the Second World War, the Bretton Woods institutions, now are being discussed in a way that could revamp them for today’s problems and we need good leadership for that.” MORGAN’S HANDS (SOUNDBITE) (English) GERMAN GOVERNMENT’S CLIMATE ISSUES ENVOY, JENNIFER MORGAN, SAYING (on LOSS AND DAMAGE AT COP): “I’ve been asked by the Egyptian presidency with the Chilean environment minister to co-facilitate the negotiations for the Egyptians so the approach really is to listen to everybody, to listen to all the positions that are out there, that are quite disperse right now and to try to identify what’s called ‘landing grounds’ in the negotiations where every party could feel perhaps equally unhappy, or equally happy, however you look at it. And I think for developing countries it’s clear they are looking for this space to discuss and they are looking for more finance and I think for developed countries, they are looking not to sign a blank check.” MORGAN’S HANDS / MORGAN SPEAKING
  • Embargoed: 28th October 2022 11:45
  • Keywords: COP27 David Malpass German climate envoy Jennifer Morgan Russia World Bank
  • Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • City: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Climate Change,Environment,Europe,General News,Government / Politics,Climate Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA001225314102022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Germany on Thursday (October 13) called on COP27 participants to “move forward together” as Russia is expected to attend the upcoming climate talks in Egypt.
    Jennifer Morgan, the German government’s climate envoy and former head of Greenpeace International told Reuters at Berlin’s foreign ministry that Russia was “another party and we have to show that we can move forward together. So we’ll see what they do at the COP. They’re a party just like any other party.”
    Morgan said what was needed was “a lot of good will, solidarity of developed countries with developing countries and a readiness to drive forward the energy transformation to renewables and energy efficiency.”
    U.S.-born Morgan also commented on World Bank President David Malpass who came under heavy criticism last month after he declined to say whether he accepts the scientific consensus on global warming, rekindling concerns about the bank's lack of a deadline to stop funding fossil fuels.
    “We need people at the head of these very important institutions that understand climate science,”Morgan told Reuters.
    Malpass appeared at an event hosted by the New York Times at Climate Week in New York City in September and was asked whether he believes that the "manmade burning of fossil fuels is rapidly and dangerously warming the planet." Malpass tried at first to dodge the question but later said: "I don't even know. I'm not a scientist."
    (Production: Oliver Barth, Michele Sani)
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