World leaders defended Sunday the much-criticised climate deal they struck at a UN summit as a key step in the fight against global warming despite its lack of targets to curb emissions. Newspapers widely branded the accord a failure and experts such as the head of a Nobel Peace prize-winning climate panel said "urgent" action was now needed. US President Barack Obama acknowledged that all of the world's polluters would quickly have to do more, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the... Read Full Story
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is defending the much-criticized outcome of the Copenhagen climate summit as a first step that paves the way for action. Merkel was quoted Sunday as telling the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that "Copenhagen is a first step toward a new world climate order — no more, but also no less." The climate conference ended Saturday with only a nonbinding "Copenhagen Accord" that was short on concrete steps against global warming but signaled a new start for rich-poor... Read Full Story
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday U.S. pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions were insufficient and warned that talks at the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen could fail. In a speech to parliament before flying to the conference for the final two days, Merkel said failure to reach a deal to fight climate change could do lasting damage. "The news that we've been receiving is not good," Merkel said. "At the moment there doesn't seem to be any reasonable... Read Full Story
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown accepted a Copenhagen climate deal on Saturday, but said they had wanted more. Merkel said she would support the compromise despite mixed feelings. "The decision has been very difficult for me. We have done one step, we have hoped for several more," she said. She added that the deal was not ambitious enough for the European Union to increase its commitment to cut carbon emissions by 30 percent by... Read Full Story
Germany's new center-right Cabinet on Wednesday approved a 2010 budget plan that foresees record levels of new debt and higher spending as the country seeks to safeguard its recovery from recession. The budget puts spending at euro325.4 billion ($474.7 billion), a 7.3 percent increase on this year's planned outlay of euro303.3 billion. It foresees new borrowing of euro85.8 billion — about euro48 billion more than this year, and the largest figure since World War II. "This highest new... Read Full Story
Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel bekommt in der Finanzpolitik zunehmenden Druck von den Wirtschaftsforschungsinstituten. Die Präsidenten der Wirtschaftsinstitute verlangen von der Bundesregierung eine konsequente Haushaltskonsolidierung. 1 Stimmen Read Full Story
Europe on Friday backed Anglo-French moves to introduce a "social" tax on banks, insurers and markets, but Germany resisted calls for a levy on bankers' past bonuses as well. European Union leaders endorsed a fresh call by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, supported by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, for the International Monetary Fund to examine a global so-called 'Tobin' tax. The idea is among proposals they want considered to ensure that trillions of dollars of taxpayers' support... Read Full Story
Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel bekommt in der Finanzpolitik zunehmenden Druck von den Wirtschaftsforschungsinstituten. Die Präsidenten der Wirtschaftsinstitute verlangen von der Bundesregierung eine konsequente Haushaltskonsolidierung. 1 Stimmen Read Full Story
The Copenhagen climate conference could come up with a deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally by 2030 and Germany may cut CO2 emissions by up to 40 percent, Chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested. In the face of a mounting challenge to produce a universally acceptable climate deal, "an option in Copenhagen could be to decide on the next phases to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for 2025 and 2030," she said. Merkel recalled that the European Union could achieve a cut of up to 30... Read Full Story
Germany's chancellor has called on the United States to cut back even more on emissions of carbon dioxide and other global-warming gasses. Angela Merkel told parliament ahead of her departure for the climate talks in Copenhagen on Thursday that the current U.S. offer of a 4 percent cut "is not ambitious enough." All industrialized nations are under pressure to make even deeper cuts, while developing countries such as China and India are being pressured to rein in emissions growth as part of... Read Full Story
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