German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed his skepticism this Saturday about the progress that could be made at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, police 27which will take place in the Egyptian city of Sharm el Sheikh, in light of global political tensions. During a debate on climate policy in the South Korean city of Busan, Steinmeier warned that The world is entering a new period conflict. “It is hard to imagine that in times of conflict and even military confrontation, Countries like Russia or China play a constructive role in and after Sharm el Sheikh,” he said.

“It is absolutely necessary to make progress, even if the conditions for they are not very happy“, said Steinmeier. In Africa, he warns, deserts are spreading, Europe lost recent glaciers in the Alps and the number of extreme weather events is also increasing in Germany.

As for Germany, Steinmeier has shown that changing the whole economy to make it sustainable not easy at a time when Europe’s largest economy spends a lot of money to maintain stability in Europe, support Ukraine with weapons and upgrade defense budget. “This is the same money we need to fight climate change,” Steinmeier said before describing the three challenges facing the country.

“First and foremost the important thing now we have to get that people have a good and safe time next winter. Second, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the suffering and destruction that occurred there, we must support Ukraine and keep supporting“, he explained. But climate change, stressed the head of state, does not stop. “And that’s why we also have to achieve -and this is a triple challenge- keeping the momentum in the fight against climate change”, that’s over.

Summit will take place with relevant victims, as is the case with Britain, whose government has claimed it is drowning in the “grim economic challenges” facing the country. In this regard, Egypt has criticized the participating countries for not using “economic pessimism” as a pretext for the possibility of pushing back the promise climate. “There are concerns because of the current state of affairs that countries may back down,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said. “To step back on existing antagonistic political positions … because of pressure from the state of the global economy in general, and therefore use what would be mitigating circumstances to justify their retreat … This would, I think, be very self-defeating.” attitude.” “, Shoukry told ‘DPA’ in an interview.