New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- Amid escalating global tariff tensions, Germany's State Secretary for Environment Jochen Flasbarth on Wednesday said tariffs are poisoning the world economy, while asserting that free trade and sustainable economic development provide a key solution for climate action.

During an interaction with ANI as part of his visit to India, the State Secretary at Germany's Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety said that growing trade restrictions and geopolitical tensions are diverting global attention away from climate transformation.

"All this is horrible. Wars are horrible. They are moving attention from global transformation, climate and biodiversity towards the milit...