The Middle Way
Dear Reader,
Germany intends to become climate- neutral, not by 2050, but by 2045. At least, that is what the politicians are planning. Some people are of the opinion that these plans are naïve, because they do not believe that the goal is achievable.
Others think that 2045 is much too late and will not allow us to meet the target of the Intergovernmental Panel on Cli- mate Change for a maximum increase in global temperatures of 1.5 °C. If we continue as before, the world’s remain- ing carbon budget, in other words, the amount of fossil greenhouse gases that can still be emitted, will be used up within the next seven years. By cutting emissions we can reduce the pressure on this budget, but will that really happen?
Scientists from a number of different disciplines, including Prof. Thomas Willner, a process engineer from Ham- burg University of Applied Sciences (HAW), and Prof. Thomas Koch from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), have made it clear in open letters that the current political course will not lead to any real reductions in CO2, because the laws of physics are being distorted by computer models. The problem is that, because of the ob vious weaknesses of this type of simulation, the discussions that we actually need to have about protecting the climate are descending into a completely pointless form of trench warfare. Instead of de - veloping serious solutions, we are re - peating the same tired arguments again and again.
We need to make immediate and last- ing reductions in emissions in every area of our lives if we are to achieve success. The current accounting method, which uses emission factors and fails to include carbon-neutral fuels, does not meet these criteria. In the long term,
there will definitely be further changes, but the solutions must prove their worth from every perspective in order to have a lasting impact. Creating a sustainable infrastructure, for example in the MENA states, is not only environmentally friend- ly, but also brings social benefits by en - abling and empowering regional devel- opments. There is unlikely to be any objection to fuels made from organic or plastic waste, as these solutions resolve several problems at once. Excluding modern combustion engines and syn- thetic fuels from the subsidy schemes is definitely the wrong approach. On the one hand, they can and will be climate- neutral and, on the other, for many ap - plications there are simply no alterna- tives, not only in transport, but across all sectors of the economy. Moreover, demonizing electric vehicles serves no useful purpose. We need to find the mid- dle way between the two extremes.
I hope you enjoy this issue of MTZ.
Marc Ziegler Deputy Editor in Chief
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