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Merkel calls for redoubling of efforts to reach climate change treaty
2013-05-08 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week called for a redoubling of efforts to forge a new U.N. agreement on climate change by 2015. Speaking Monday at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, Merkel warned the representatives of 35 countries in attendance that "waiting is not an option" for reaching a deal to cut the world's greenhouse gas emissions. "If we do nothing, the road is even more complicated," she said. "Doing nothing also means that everything is much more expensive." While...
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Inaction on Global Warming 'Not an Option:' Angela Merkel
2013-05-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Monday that in the quest for binding international emissions targets to fight global warming, doing nothing is "not an option". "I'm under no illusion that there is a long road ahead," Merkel said about efforts to reverse global warming, melting ice caps and rising seas. But she warned at a climate conference in Berlin that "doing nothing only means that it will get a whole lot more expensive." Merkel was speaking at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue,...
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Merkel raises hopes for EU carbon fix
2013-05-07 04:37:07| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: German Chancellor Angel Merkel raised hopes for Europe's flagging emissions trading scheme (ETS) late last week by calling for action to be taken this year to revive plans to tackle the over-supply of carbon allowances in the market. The news that Europe's largest economy might be shifting behind a fix for the EU ETS sent prices of carbon allowances up 21 per cent on Friday to well over EUR3.5 a tonne. Germany's environment and economy ministers had been divided on EU plans to limit the supply...
GM, Opel CEOs to meet German leader Merkel
2013-04-05 20:32:11| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
The chief executive of General Motors and the head of its Opel unit in Germany will meet Chancellor Angela Merkel next week to discuss the rejection of a plant closure timetable by workers which could speed the factory's shutdown.
Merkel warns of risks of fracking in Germany
2013-02-20 18:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Germany should tread carefully in developing hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to tap shale gas reserves, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday, in some of her first public comments on the controversial drilling technique. Fracking has created a shale gas boom in the United States but it faces opposition in some European countries where critics say it could increase seismic risks and pollute drinking water. "New deposits of gas could very probably be tapped in Germany with this technology...
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