PenInfo Desk: Ahead of this year’s UN climate conference in Baku, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock highlighted the severe risks of global warning. Source “dpa”

“Killer storms, droughts, ever more ‘once-in-a-century’ floods and record heatwaves: The climate crisis is the greatest security challenge of our time,” the Green Party politician said in Berlin on Sunday.

Following a week marked by the victory of US president-elect Donald Trump, Baerbock said the crisis took no regard of elections, as the recent flooding in Spain and hurricanes in the United States had shown.

She said the shift away from coal, gas and oil agreed at the 2023 Conference of the Parties (COP28) would pay off.

“Every tenth of a degree of prevented global warming means fewer crises, less suffering, less displacement,” the minister said.

Representatives from some 200 countries are expected to attend this year’s COP29 summit, which kicks off in Baku on Monday and runs for two weeks until November 22.

Developing countries and environmental groups expect industrialized countries to mobilize at least $1 trillion annually to help counter the effects of climate change ten times more than the currently agreed $100 billion.

Peninfo/desk/13.11.24/01.00am