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The German politician, one of the leaders of the Green party, also spoke about climate change during his visit to China.
The world’s goals around climate change and protecting the environment cannot be achieved without China, he said. At the moment other issues seem to be distracting from global warming, Habeck said. “But without China, we won’t be able to achieve global environmental goals.”
That is why it was particularly important to strengthen cooperation with the Chinese on this topic, Habeck added.
During the conversations he had had in China, it had been explained to him that China was building coal-fired power plants for reasons of energy security. In fact what China needed was a secure alternative to coal, Habeck said. What China apparently did not need was lectures on how emissions were bad for the planet. The Chinese are very well aware of that, he concluded.
haz/mak (dpa, afp, rtr)
This story was originally written in German.
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