Saarland Environment Minister Petra Berg is campaigning for more confidence and trust in environmentally friendly technologies. “Society today fears that their well-being is at risk due to climate protection measures,” said the SPD politician at the end of the Environment Ministers’ Conference in Saarbrücken. There are concerns about job losses.
Therefore, the important signal of the conference is Climate protection and prosperity is a shared property. Climate protection measures can create added value and guarantee that jobs can be created with new technologies, Berg stressed, pointing to Saarland’s path towards environmentally friendly steel. Federal Environment Minister Carsten Schneider (SPD) also explained that this aims to preserve core industrial sectors while considering climate protection.
Climate and environmental protection is currently not a focus of society and often only becomes a focus again when an event occurs accompanied by heavy rain or severe damage, such as the recent typhoons in the Philippines, said Environment Minister Saarland. However, extreme weather like this shows that climate protection is not a regional or national issue, but a global issue, because society is affected globally.
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