Winfried Kreischmann on visit to Great Britain: PM calls for more firm climate protection – Baden-Württemberg

Winfried Kreischmann visits Great Britain. Photo: DPA / Bernd Weibrod


Baden-Württemberg Prime Minister Winfried Kreutschmann has called for greater determination in climate protection for talks at the World Climate Conference.

GLASGOW – “We must advance our commitment to climate protection and do everything we can to move much faster and more effectively,” Kretschmann told Great Britain’s own Said as part of the trip. Glasgow.

Kretschmann: “This is real climate protection from below!”

Baden-Württemberg launched the ambitious International Coalition for Climate Protection with California and other regions in 2015, and it has grown significantly in the meantime, according to Kretschmann. Today it represents 1.75 billion people from more than 40 nation states. “This large increase in membership shows that subnational level of confidence in climate protection has increased significantly. This is real climate protection from the bottom up!”

Political Dialogue with the Prime Minister of Scotland

Kretschmann met on Sunday for political talks with Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Catalonia’s President Pere Aragonese and Andalusia’s President Juan Manuel Moreno Bonilla. On Monday he wants to open a new representative office in Baden-Württemberg in London. British Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs Greg Hands and German Ambassador Andreas Michaelis are also expected to attend the ceremony. Southwest already has many other foreign representations, for example in the US city of San Francisco, India and Israel.



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