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Shortly before the World Climate Conference in Dubai
The head of the World Meteorological Organization calls on Germany to “rethink the phase-out of nuclear weapons”
Shortly before the COP28 global climate conference in Dubai, Petteri Taalas, head of the World Weather Organization, recommended Germany reconsider phasing out nuclear weapons.
© Source: World Meteorological Organization
Geneva. Shortly before the global climate conference in Dubai, the head of the World Weather Organization, Petteri Taalas, recommended that Germany reconsider phasing out nuclear weapons. “Nuclear energy is a good technology for producing climate-friendly energy,” Thalas told the German news agency in Geneva. Achieving the phase-out of coal without using nuclear power and continuing to produce enough affordable energy will be difficult. “I would like to call on the federal government to reconsider the phase-out of nuclear weapons.”
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which scientifically studies and describes the state of the climate under the umbrella of the World Meteorological Organization, encourages in its reports the use of all non-fossil energy sources to reduce greenhouse gases, including nuclear energy. The European Union Commission has included electricity generated by nuclear power plants as a green energy source in its classification regulation. The COP28 global climate conference begins on November 30 in Dubai. Thalas hopes that countries there will announce more stringent climate protection measures so that global warming can be limited to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
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“If Germany wants to stick to current energy consumption or produce more, for example in electric mobility, it will be difficult to do all of this largely with sun and wind,” Taalas said. Then there is a choice: either buy them, for example from France, where some of the electricity comes from nuclear power plants, or accept the consequences for the economy. “If energy costs are too high compared to other countries, it may not be attractive for some industries to stay in Germany.”
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