Germany's Merkel: Fight Against Climate Change Must Go On
BERLIN –The fight against climate change and securing biodiversity is crucial to preventing costly environmental damage, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday.
“Copenhagen hasn’t made us optimistic,” Merkel said at an environmental event on biodiversity. “But we will go on. There is no alternative to it.”
Her comments come after the disappointing outcome of the United Nations-sponsored climate summit in December, which ended with a face-saving note and no agreement on binding targets on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Merkel said the issue of “maintaining biological diversity has the same significance as maintaining climate protection.”
She added that it is clear that the world will face “enormous costs” if no action is taken.
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