00:00:00: The world is in a fossil-fueled crisis of climate breakdown, conflict and instability.

00:00:09: But here at Santa Marta we have planted the seed of solutions.

00:00:14: now

00:00:15: we carry them across to the ocean united on purpose.

00:00:20: This is shared responsibility And together We will determine our path towards future free from fossil fuels.

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00:00:29: are welcome, indeed all are cold.

00:01:00: Hello and welcome to a new climate update.

00:01:02: We are the news podcast of Klima Reporter und der Tatz, today we will talk about the three most important weather reports in the week.

00:01:08: I am Sandra Kirchner from Klima Reporter Today with my colleague Verena Kern.

00:01:15: Hello Verena!

00:01:16: First we will talk about the Copernicus climate report, which describes how the climate change in Europe is noticeable.

00:01:35: Then it's all about the record-winners who enter oil and gas companies into the current energy crisis – as well as how to react to this.

00:01:43: And finally let us discuss the first conference on the removal of fossil fuels which has just taken place in Santa Marta, Colombia.

00:01:54: First

00:01:55: we'll take a look at how the climate change is noticeable on our continent.

00:01:59: This week an important and new report came out.

00:02:03: The Climate Change Report for Europe or in the original The European State of the Climate Report.

00:02:11: Every year this report will be produced by the EU Climate Change Service Copernicus and World Weather Organization WMO And he describes very extensively which climate changes were measured and observed, related to the past year.

00:02:28: So it's about a kind of climate balance from the year two thousand twenty-five in Europe.

00:02:34: Yes, this

00:02:34: balance is now looking at us once again – we are calling for the most important results of the report!

00:02:41: Let's take a short overview.

00:02:44: First of all, the temperatures.

00:02:48: They were practically everywhere in Europe over the course of last year.

00:02:52: And there also came extreme heat waves, especially remarkable because the heat wave in Finland, Sweden and Norway was the hottest heat wave that ever was measured there.

00:03:06: It was about thirty degrees hot for three weeks.

00:03:09: Usually two such days a year are maximum.

00:03:11: The heat is also affected

00:03:13: by the sea in Europe.

00:03:15: Over all, the sea surface temperature reached negative record values and almost everywhere there were too strong or very strong marine heat waves that were still a rare thing in the eighties.

00:03:28: This leads to the death of seagrass visors among others And that is very relevant, because seagrass can save a lot of CO₂.

00:03:37: So it has been urgently needed for climate protection.

00:03:41: Due to the heat, especially in Spain and Portugal came extreme forest fires but also in other regions of Europe.

00:03:51: In total, about one million hectares of forest lost due to the forest fire as much as ever before last year.

00:03:59: A short remark.

00:04:02: There was a day show report on this topic, the Copernicus climate report that we are talking about right now.

00:04:09: There were even billions of hectares burned.

00:04:12: That's not true.

00:04:14: It was only one million hectares at the beginning, but that is quite a lot

00:04:18: as well.

00:04:18: Yes indeed and all the glaciers in Europe experienced a net mass loss.

00:04:25: They simply said they were crumpled.

00:04:27: The Greenland Ice Shield lost a total of one hundred thirty-nine gigatonnes of ice.

00:04:32: These are one hundred and thirty nine billion tons!

00:04:36: Yes,

00:04:36: and also a word about storms and floods.

00:04:41: These weather extremes have arisen again last year as well And they hit thousands of people in all over Europe.

00:04:48: However, these extreme rainfalls and floods were less spread than the report that has been reported so recently.

00:04:58: And the report also calls for another positive message.

00:05:02: It concerns Europe's energy transition, which is actually coming to an end.

00:05:06: Already in year two thousand and twenty-five was already the third episode where renewable energies produced more electricity than fossil fuels, namely almost half of them, while coal oil and gas are only contributing

00:05:23: a good quarter.

00:05:24: Yes!

00:05:24: To draw on one short conclusion.

00:05:26: Europe is very strongly affected by climate change, with long-lasting heat waves, large-scale forest fires and other extreme events.

00:05:35: The continent heats up twice as quickly than the rest of the world And Europe is therefore the continent that warms itself at the fastest.

00:05:46: By the way this is not a new discovery but it has been known for forty years.

00:05:51: And

00:05:52: now we come to our second topic.

00:05:53: We're not looking at the consequences of this climate crisis, but rather on the cause,

00:06:00: i.e.,

00:06:01: the large oil and gas companies.

00:06:04: Through the Iran War these companies increased their profit exorbitant because the prices for earth, oil and liquid earth gas have risen very high.

00:06:14: And furthermore there is a very high global demand for fossil fuels.

00:06:20: and that's why the profit span increases

00:06:24: accordingly.

00:06:24: The British oil company BP for example, this week it was known that he had doubled his profit in the first quarter of the year – from January to March.

00:06:40: And I'm going to call out the numbers so we can figure out how big it is.

00:06:45: Last year BP was in the fourth quarter.

00:06:49: U.S.

00:06:50: dollars won by one point four billion, and this year it was three point two billion.

00:06:55: So really more than a doubling of the profit for BP And you might have to say again that BP actually wanted to become greener and put more on renewable sources.

00:07:06: but yes last year they revised their strategy and re-increased fossil fuels With the motto Back to Black, back in black I mean the color of oil.

00:07:19: Yes,

00:07:20: the development organization Oxfam has just calculated how many extra profits six of the world's largest fossil energy companies can expect this year namely Shell, Exxon, Chevron BP Conoco Phillips and Total Energies.

00:07:38: And there are thirty-seven million US dollars per day for these companies to make additional profits compared with the last year, or together with a total of about US dollar extra profit in the entire year.

00:07:55: Yes we don't want too

00:07:55: many numbers here on climate change but I think it has got to be so that you can feel what kind of gigantic sum is going on there.

00:08:05: At this sum, of course the question arises that if something is so harmful like oil and gas brings in such high profits one shouldn't do anything about it.

00:08:21: For example, building up renewable energies faster to get out of fossil energy dependent on fossil fuels or lead a profit tax to finance the transformation of renewable energies with money.

00:08:36: Yes, Oxfam has also conducted an interesting survey in seven European and foreign countries.

00:08:42: Germany was not included but I will point it out – Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Australia, Brazil Turkey and Colombia Because in Colombia, the first conference was held on behalf of fossil fuels.

00:08:58: But we'll talk about that later.

00:09:01: for a third part and this conference was for Oxfam to show the extremely high profits from fossil fuels companies as

00:09:13: well as for this survey.

00:09:14: Yes now let's call it the result of the survey.

00:09:17: Two thirds of the respondents in these seven countries are there that their governments invest more in renewable energies, i.e.

00:09:27: drive the energy transition forward instead of trying to get even more fossil fuels out on the ground.

00:09:35: So these two thirds are the average of all seven countries.

00:09:39: At the very least, the mood for an energy transition is Australian.

00:09:43: There it's only fifty-nine percent, which isn't surprising now.

00:09:47: Australia already a pretty fossil country.

00:09:51: It may be a bit surprising where the mood for energy transition is at its highest, namely in Brazil and Turkey.

00:10:00: And there were also two questions about the high profits of oil and gas companies.

00:10:04: The question was asked by two-thirds of people as well that it's not right to take so much profit without taking responsibility And also, as the two thirds have said.

00:10:22: They are for the increase in oil and gas prices to finance the transition from renewable energies.

00:10:33: As announced

00:10:34: already now we would like our view on Santa Marta.

00:10:38: In the Colombian city it is this Wednesday that the first international conference has ended due to the rise of fossil fuels.

00:10:46: The goal of the conference is to form a coalition of wills and concrete steps in order to drive a world without oil, gas or coal forward.

00:10:58: The conference was organized by Colombia and the Netherlands, representatives from fifty-seven countries participated therein and these countries are still part of one third of the worldwide Bruttoinland product And among the participants were also the EU and Germany.

00:11:15: Wait

00:11:16: a minute, Germany?

00:11:16: Yes, Germany

00:11:18: was represented by Jochen Flassbad, the Secretary of State from the Federal Environment Ministry.

00:11:23: He has been taking part in international climate strikes for years now.

00:11:29: When he mutates the signal, of course, the environmental administration plays a traditional central role because it coordinates international and national climate policy as well as a strong interest in transformation worldwide.

00:11:45: But of course you also have to ask yourself whether the national policy in Germany drives this rise from fossil energy consistently enough.

00:11:55: And there, one has to say that it is time for a long collection or even after a world-wide climate policy.

00:12:03: But why this conference?

00:12:06: There are actually already the world climate conferences.

00:12:08: Yes, but the existing multilateral processes do not allow CO₂ emissions to sink in as much as it would be necessary.

00:12:18: The international climate conferences have been taking place since nineteen ninety-five years ago and yet the emissions have still been rising in recent years.

00:12:30: International climate conferences I would say that everything is moving, but less than necessary.

00:12:38: You have to keep in mind.

00:12:41: these conferences need consensus.

00:12:43: So all states must agree and there you often end up with the smallest common denominator.

00:12:50: Exactly!

00:12:50: That also showed the climate conference last year which took place in Brazil.

00:12:57: The states could not agree on a joint travel plan to export coal, oil and gas.

00:13:03: Because countries exporting oil and gases such as Saudi Arabia or Russia have blocked an export plan.

00:13:11: And that's why they now met in Santa Marta to talk about how the export of fossil fuels can succeed?

00:13:19: And what did the U.N.

00:13:20: conference do in particular?

00:13:24: It was not about negotiations or climate goals, as it is usually done at climate conferences, but that goal was to learn from each other how you can better solve the economy and society of fossil fuels with an idea that every country has its own plan for developing fossil fuels.

00:13:49: France has made the effort and set up a road map in Santa Marta.

00:13:54: Until now, France wants to get out of the coal burning but it only makes one percent of the energy consumption according to the French government.

00:14:06: From the year two thousand forty-five, however, that is the second largest folk economy in Europe.

00:14:16: No more oil and from now on the country doesn't want to use gas.

00:14:22: I can also follow this plan, you have to say that because most of the electricity comes out of the nuclear power... and fossil fuels at least in the electricity sector play a smaller

00:14:35: role.

00:14:36: And also, in Santa Marta, a foundation was created for the further exchange.

00:14:43: The participants agreed that there should be another conference next year to organize Tuvalu and Ireland.

00:14:49: In addition, a firm working group will be set up which is supposed to take care of it that one does not start new at every meeting, but should ensure this working group for continuity and also strengthen the cooperation between existing initiatives.

00:15:06: And in addition, the results from Santa Marta are supposed to flow into the international climate conferences.

00:15:13: Then

00:15:14: further workaheists were created who specifically wanted to deal with how countries can become less dependent on coal oil or gas.

00:15:25: And it is a scientific advisory agreement for the energy transition plan.

00:15:29: This should help governments to shape the energy change so that the goal of one point five is still achievable.

00:15:39: And about this specific problems and solutions were discussed,

00:15:44: i.e.,

00:15:45: how fossil fuels can be dismantled and let debt in climate investments change or how the tax systems can be reformed to prevent the rise of fossil fuels.

00:15:59: Yes, that's why we're here at the end of our episode.

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