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how far does she feel her climate change credentials are being compromised in her new role? jennifer morgan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. so there you were in february last year. you stepped down as head of greenpeace international. in march, you became germany s international envoy for international climate action. why did you accept the role? well, you know, when minister baerbock called in this german government which has, i would say the most impressive positions on climate change domestically and internationally i thought i always try and go where i feel like i can make the biggest difference. and the opportunity to work for such a government, for such a minister at this moment of time in climate, ithought, i have to give it a go . you know, greenpeace, we always talk about acts annalena baerbock, the german foreign minister is who you are referring to. yes. who was also former co leader of the green party in germany. so, that s what attracted you. 0k. you said y
welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. the german government has pledged to put fighting climate change at the heart of its agenda. it has just hosted world leaders to help lay the groundwork for international talks in november. but for many, the two week long gathering failed to make sufficient progress on climate finance and the pace of cuts in carbon pollution. my guest isjennifer morgan, germany s american born envoy for international climate action. until last year, she was leader of the environmental campaign group greenpeace international. how far does she feel her climate change credentials are being compromised in her new role? jennifer morgan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. so there you were in february last year. you stepped down as head of greenpeace international. in march, you became germany s international envoy for international climate action. why did you accept the role? well, you know, when minister baerbock called in this german government which ha
on partnerships we vejust done one with colombia where we say, ok, on eye level, what what are you looking for? what kind of local value creation can we have in your country? what kind ofjob training? we re doing this with kenya, with president ruto in order to provide those jobs, get the renewables moving so you can become an exporter of. crosstalk. and they re committed to it? ..green hydrogen. yeah. and they want a clean future. yeah, they do. but they re saying, in the meantime, we cannot industrialise our countries without using the fossil fuels that we have discovered . i want to put to you this point same point by the an international energy agency report last year, said that africa s industrialisation, it says, relies in part on expanding its natural gas use. and even if it were to expand all the gas resources that have been discovered to date, it would only result in 0.5% increase in global carbon emissions.
well, i think with senegal actually last week, we agreed on a just energy transition partnership with senegal, where senegal has agreed to put in place 40% renewable energy by 2030 and developed countries have come in with a package of $2.5 billion to support it. every country, of course, can take its pathway, of course. and i think the question that i have and that i m confronted with often by other leaders in africa is, why are you asking us to provide you with fossil fuels when what we actually want to do is have a different development pathway that s about decentralised, renewable energy and scaling it up? why is it that so little amount of funding is going to renewables in africa? and that is a problem because then, itjust perpetuates the same model of an extractivist development model where fossil fuels come to the north and we use them and continue to do what we re doing, right? so instead, we are working on partnerships we vejust done with colombia where we say, o