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Germany’s diplomacy to pivot toward fighting climate change
The Associated Press ^ | February 9, 2022

Posted on 02/09/2022 8:16:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s diplomatic priorities will tilt toward addressing the threat of climate change as one of the key global challenges of the 21st century, Germany’s foreign minister announced Wednesday.

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, a member of the environmentalist Green Party, said Germany’s 226 diplomatic missions worldwide will become “climate embassies.”

This will require some “reorganization and reallocation of resources,” she said, including with the appointment of a new German climate envoy, the former Greenpeace chief Jennifer Morgan.

The announcement Tuesday that Morgan would take on a senior government position prompted some grumbling in Berlin, including from opposition politicians who questioned why an American activist had been chosen for the post.

“The energy transition is a clear soft power of Germany’s, and I will actively use it,” she said, referring to efforts by Europe’s biggest economy to phase out nuclear power this year, end coal use by the end of the decade and use only renewable energy by 2045.

Morgan said switching into a senior government post — her American counterpart will be U.S. climate envoy John Kerry — after long criticizing countries for failing to do enough to curb climate change was “a unique chance” to pursue an issue she’s focused on for 30 years.

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1 posted on 02/09/2022 8:16:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Vee haf vays....


2 posted on 02/09/2022 8:17:37 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’ve heard Germans are good at fighting...winning, not so much.


3 posted on 02/09/2022 8:18:29 AM PST by ghost of nixon
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
This will require some “reorganization and reallocation of resources,” she said,

In other words a murderous totalitarianism like the world has never seen.

4 posted on 02/09/2022 8:18:50 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Tilting at windmills” comes to mind.........


5 posted on 02/09/2022 8:19:39 AM PST by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Beware of Germans high on Russian gas.


6 posted on 02/09/2022 8:21:34 AM PST by allendale
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Tinpot tyrants around the world should ecstatic over how successful the covid scam was at enabling government overreach.

Now, back to the global warming scam.

7 posted on 02/09/2022 8:22:27 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Seruzawa

The best way to solve climate change is to have a massive nuclear exchange that eliminates Homo Sapiens from the planet...

You know that is what they really think.


8 posted on 02/09/2022 8:24:09 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These people will cause massive pain and suffering if not stopped. They are on the march here.


9 posted on 02/09/2022 8:27:16 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

her American counterpart will be U.S. climate envoy John Kerry


Reporting for duty!


10 posted on 02/09/2022 8:28:54 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...referring to efforts by Europe’s biggest economy to phase out nuclear power this year, end coal use by the end of the decade and use only renewable energy by 2045...”

By the time these idiots are through, Germany will look like 1945 all over again. Truly a suicidal government.


11 posted on 02/09/2022 8:32:04 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Putin smiles.


12 posted on 02/09/2022 8:32:08 AM PST by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: FreedomPoster

If only we had someone like John N. Kennedy over here.

What he wrote is so true in this context as well: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4036733/posts


13 posted on 02/09/2022 8:33:39 AM PST by Menes
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dennis Prager recommends always doing the opposite of what Germany does.


14 posted on 02/09/2022 8:39:23 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, I guess they won’t need that Russian gas after all....


15 posted on 02/09/2022 8:42:04 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Germany: All The Wrong Moves. Should be a book title.


16 posted on 02/09/2022 8:43:09 AM PST by oil_dude
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Isn’t it great to have Germany as a NATO ally: Fighting climate change and dependent on Russia for its energy?


17 posted on 02/09/2022 8:48:19 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s another reason why we shouldn’t stay in NATO. They’re no better than the Russians.


18 posted on 02/09/2022 9:11:01 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Time for more Executive Orders.
They have lost the war on Covid and are now going to try another tact.


19 posted on 02/09/2022 9:23:09 AM PST by Zathras
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Germany’s diplomacy to pivot toward fighting climate change

Don Quixote was a fictional Spaniard but ignorance, it seems, has no nationality.

20 posted on 02/09/2022 10:33:42 AM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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