Germany's Merz Addresses Critics with Climate Action Pledge
Merz says Germany must curb climate change and adapt to extreme heat after a summer that caused 14,000 heat-related deaths, officials said.
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Germany's Merz addresses critics with climate action pledge
"We have to further curb climate change and at the same time better adapt to the consequences," Merz said at the start of a two-day retreat outside Berlin with members of the cabinet. Germany had to "draw the long-term lessons from extreme situations such as this summer of heat," he said, adding that the biggest EU economy had suffered "significant damage" over recent months. A heatwave in late June saw Germany break its all-time temperature rec…
"We must continue to curb climate change and, at the same time, better adapt our country to its consequences," said the conservative leader on the sidelines of a re-entry seminar of his government coalition with the Social Democrats. "In particular, he calls for "teaching long-term lessons from extreme situations such as this summer's heat wave." Unprecedented drop in the level of the Rhine, poor harvests for wine growers and cereal farmers, gro…
Germany drawing 'long-term lessons': Germany's Merz addresses critics with climate action pledge
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