This summer, we’ve witnessed wildfires in 🇬🇷🇵🇹🇹🇷 - homes destroyed, existences shattered, lives lost. Now wildfires are ravaging 🇧🇷 where it’s winter. Climate change may not cause a single fire but it makes wildfires more likely & extreme. #ClimateAction protects us all.

Climate change has turned #SeaLevelRise into an existential threat to those least responsible. António Guterres calls for surging funds for surging seas. Shifting financial flows in the trillions towards resilience & transition towards net-0 economies secures a safer 🌍 for all.

Bei der Utopie-Konferenz spreche ich mit Maja Goepel @beyond-ideology.bsky.social JAGODA MARINIĆ 🪝 über Vertrauen. Mein Vater meinte immer: Zuhören ist das Wichtigste. Durch Zuhören entsteht Verständnis und durch Verständnis Vertrauen - für mich der wichtigste Rohstoff der internationalen #Klimapolitik 🤝

Heute breche ich zu einer einwöchigen Reise nach #Südafrika auf. Das Land ist ein unverzichtbarer globaler Partner in der Außen- und Klimapolitik. Mit meinem Besuch möchte ich unsere internationale #Klimakooperation weiter vertiefen. 🇩🇪🤝🇿🇦 Zur PM ⤵️ auswaertiges-amt.de/de/newsroom/-/…

🇿🇦 & 🇩🇪 cooperate to fight climate change. Kuphela uma sibambisana sikwazi ukuvikela isimo sezulu. German Cimate Envoy starts a one-week visit to South Africa. Welkom!

Day 1 in 🇿🇦: Excellent discussions with The African Climate Foundation, leading climate scientists, students Energy Systems Research Group at UCT, private sector + civil society. I’m inspired by the in-depth expertise & innovative approaches with regard to just #EnergyTransition ⚖️🌍, adaptation and 🇩🇪-🇿🇦 cooperation!

Visit by German Climate Envoy Jennifer Morgan & 🇿🇦🇩🇪 climate talks. Kumele silwe nokushintsha kwesimo sezulu uma sifuna ukuvikela umhlaba wethu. Big 🙏 to Presidential Climate Commission Presidential Climate Commission for hosting this important forum

🇩🇪State Sec. & Special Envoy for Int. Climate Action Jennifer Morgan is currently in #SouthAfrica. "One of the most pressing questions of justice is how we come together as a global community to support those hit hardest yet least responsible", she said in Cape Town yesterday. 1/2

Thank you Bushveld Minerals 🇿🇦 for an interesting and important visit! Bushveld strives to be the first African solar mini-grid with vanadium battery and a potential alternative to lithium, with benefits to local communities. 🔋☀️ #GreenTransition #JustTransition

Repeated floods in #Bangladesh are another tragic proof of how the #climate crisis is impacting the life of millions, already today. We must reinforce our efforts to fight the climate crisis to prevent the rise of those disastrous events.

Strengthening relationships remains key to our mission. This week, we were delighted to meet with Jennifer Morgan, State Secretary and Special Envoy for International Climate Action Jennifer Morgan. Our executive director, Saliem Fakir discussed the impact of the The African Climate Foundation,

#TeamDeutschland 🇩🇪 in Aktion: Heute bin ich gemeinsam mit Staatssekretär Jochen Flasbarth in 🇿🇦. Im Fokus steht die Umsetzung unserer #Klimaaussenpolitik für eine sozial gerechte Energiewende und eine vertiefte wirtschaftliche #Zusammenarbeit mit 🇿🇦. Auswärtiges Amt Bundesentwicklungsministerium

#Südafrika will zu einer besseren Welt beitragen, so der 🇿🇦 Vize-Finanzminister David Masondo, PhD. Energiewende ist dabei der Schlüssel zu einer nachhaltigen Zukunft. StS Flasbarth bekräftigte deutsche Kooperation in #JETP & bei beruflicher Bildung. #TeamDeutschland Jennifer Morgan

🇿🇦🫱🏾‍🫲🏻🇩🇪 cooperation German State Secretaries J. Flasbarth and J. Morgan and JETP envoy R. Baake meet Deputy Minister of Finance David Masondo, PhD Discussing way forward to work together on skills development, climate, energy, G20 and more. Siyabonga 🙏

Always excellent to exchange with Environmentza on G20 & COP29 issues to understand perspectives and seek solutions that move us forward for a just, ambitious & resilient future to keep the 1.5 degrees C limit in reach, build resilience across our economies. Bundesentwicklungsministerium

A few reflections on my week in #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦💭