Published on November 21, 2024 at 8:17 p.m. / Modified on November 21, 2024 at 8:23 p.m.
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Albert Rösti, head of DETEC assures that “Switzerland is ready to do its part” against global warming
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Southern countries are up in arms over the lack of concrete proposals from Western countries
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On Thursday, they continued to demand between 1000 and 1300 billion dollars
On the platform, officials from countries as different as Switzerland, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Panama and Norway. The COPs are familiar with these kinds of second-hand alliances formed between countries whose interests may otherwise diverge significantly. It is the turn of Federal Councilor Albert Rösti to speak. He plays his part in the great global choir that rises from Baku. “Switzerland is ready to do its part,” he says. The head of the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC) is convinced: the planet can still avoid exceeding the threshold of 1.5°C of warming. But on the condition, he said, that “all countries” implement the measures they have promised.
Traditional hat on his head, colorful outfit, his Panamanian colleague Juan Carlos Monterrey seems to answer him point-for-tat: “Without ambition, it will be extinction.” The man has a sense of the formula.
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