The price of the future

Helga Kromp-Kolb, eProfessor (emer.) of Meteorology and Climate, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences,

Climate change - what does it have to do with us?
Climate change has victims and causers - people in industrialised countries are mostly both. There are no bystanders. While there is every reason to be afraid of climate change and its direct and indirect consequences, the measures to protect the climate also offer the chance to change much that is wrong. Climate change has become a climate crisis, and now it is a matter of preventing it from becoming a global climate catastrophe. This can only succeed if everyone works together - internationally and nationally. No country or person is too small or unimportant, and everyone has opportunities to contribute: industry, agriculture, the individual - and it is the task of politics to facilitate this for everyone.
Because climate protection in the sense of the Paris Climate Agreement requires profound changes, especially in the industrialised countries, and - embedded in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals - thus also offers the possibility of increasing the quality of life.

Short biography: Helga Kromp-Kolb is Professor Emeritus of Meteorology and Climatology at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences and works on the dispersion of pollutants and radioactivity in the atmosphere, climate change and education for sustainable development. She gives numerous lectures to raise awareness of the major challenges we face and has also been active in policy advice.