Flemish Minister for the Environment Zuhal Demir (N-VA) will not go to the climate summit in Glasgow after all. A corona infection in her cabinet throws a spanner in the works.
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Bad luck. A day before Flemish Minister for the Environment Zuhal Demir was due to attend the climate summit in Glasgow, her head of cabinet tested positive. The two have been in close contact in recent weeks. The minister shows no symptoms, but is awaiting the results of her PCR test in quarantine. In accordance with the PLF, which prohibits travel in the first fourteen days after close contact with an infected person, the minister is not allowed to go abroad.
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‘How rotten is this’, Demir said to sister newspaper The newspapaer. ‘We have worked hard over the past three weeks and have taken good measures for the climate.’ The minister says that he even called Marc Van Ranst, ‘but he confirmed what I feared: the rules are stricter for flying and travel, so I can’t go to Glasgow.’ “Imagine that I am positive and contaminate the entire plane and everyone at that conference: I do not want that on my conscience,” the minister said.
The minister had a busy schedule ahead of him. They will now have to perform this digitally as much as possible. The negotiations with the various Belgian climate ministers will not be jeopardized as a result, her spokesperson assures The standard. On Tuesday they would continue to discuss the division of climate efforts between the states. Belgium has to emit a total of 47 percent less to meet the European standard. With the Flemish climate plans we will achieve a 40 percent reduction in emissions.
“That is more annoying for the bilateral meetings with the ministers from the Netherlands, Lithuania and Catalonia, although we will also try to capture them digitally,” says her spokesperson. By being diplomatically present at the top, Flanders also tries to have a physical hand in the top. Although there was also a setback there: two employees of the Flemish government tested positive on their arrival in Glasgow. They have been in isolation for several days.
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