The double standard of the West

By Dirk Messner

Dirk Messner, head of the Federal Environment Agency.

Climate neutrality and sustainable development can only succeed if global cooperation in these fields functions and is massively deepened. Therefore, especially in view of the Russian war, a more comprehensive effort is needed to ensure that the current international crisis constellation leads to a reconsideration that expands the opportunities for international cooperation alliances in the 21st century and averts a dangerous disintegration of the global order.

The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine makes it clear, as if through a burning glass, that the entire world order is reeling: because the nuclear power Russia is acting belligerently and imperialistically, trying to enforce the law of the strongest by force, against any idea of a rule-based world order.

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