Germany-California Climate Cooperation?
Lecture By Winfried Kretschmann, Baden-Württemberg Minister-President, tonight at UC Berkeley, could be a start
Germany and California represent two global leaders when it comes to addressing climate change. For example, Germany has been on a renewable energy spree, despite its relatively minimal solar insolation, while California has committed to reducing greenhouse gases and incubating emerging clean technology industries, like energy storage, electric vehicles, and renewables.
But at the sub-national level, certain states within Germany are pushing the envelope even more. One of those states is Baden-Württemberg, led by the Green Party minister-president Winfried Kretschmann. Together with California, these sub-national climate hawks could play a powerful role at the upcoming UN climate talks in Paris.
Minister-President Kretschmann will be speaking at UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies tonight at 6pm at 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building to discuss the climate synergies with these two subnational leaders.
In his lecture, he promises to make a “special announcement in the field of renewable energy and climate policy that will also affect California.” Let’s hope it’s something that will push the global community into action, instead of the wheel-spinning we’ve seen to date.
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“……Together with California, these sub-national climate hawks could play a powerful role at the upcoming UN climate talks in Paris……”
Everyone talks about the climate, that’s easy. But all of the worldwide climate mitigation efforts combined over the last 30 years have yielded no measurable results that would demonstrate that these efforts have had any effect whatsoever on the global climate; nor will such efforts ever yield measurable results, and these failed efforts will eventually be abandoned altogether. That is the most likely future outcome for failed attempts to mitigate climate change. Actual and effective climate mitigation is not scientifically, technically and economically feasible, it is a complete waste of money and resources, now and forever and unto ages of ages.