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The head of the Berlin office of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), Martin Frick, is urgently calling for progress on climate protection. “We still have six or seven years to turn the tide on climate change. Once we reach the tipping point, there will be drastic and irreparable consequences,” Frick told dpa on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai. “Greenhouse gas emissions will continue to rise worldwide. This is suicide by instalments.” When it comes to food security, there is not a production system but a distribution system, said Frick – so far. “But that could soon ch…

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