German climate expert Mujib Latif warned that “the time for trying to limit global warming to a maximum increase of 1.5 degrees compared to the pre-industrial revolution period has already expired.”

“Given the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions, we will exceed this level in less than ten years,” the expert told the Bavaria media group on the eve of the start of the St. Petersburg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, Germany. “If we look at what politicians around the world are doing right now, we will get more than 3 points. We are approaching the moment when we have to admit that it is already too late,” he said.

Latif stressed that a 3-degree rise in global temperatures would be catastrophic, deploring that there have always been more pressing issues than climate protection.

The St. Petersburg Climate Dialogue brings together ministers from around 40 countries to discuss future steps in the fight against climate change.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi will speak at a dialogue hosted by Germany and Egypt in preparation for the United Nations Climate Conference (COP27) to be held in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh early next year. november.

The climate dialogue will revolve around “responding to very complex crises, namely climate change, energy supply problems due to the war in Ukraine and food shortages in regions around the world.”