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Published 11/03/2009 by Individual.com


Tear down mental walls on climate, German chancellor says

German Chancellor Angela Merkel made an impassioned plea Tuesday to a joint session of Congress to work together on efforts to curb global warming and to help forge a binding climate-change deal at an international meeting next month.

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"We need an agreement on one objective: Global warming must not exceed 2 degrees Celsius" Merkel said, or 3...
Tear down mental walls on climate, German chancellor says [Individual.com - 11/03/2009]
...Fahrenheit. "To achieve this, we need the readiness of all countries to accept internationally binding obligations. We cannot afford missing the objectives in climate protection that science tells us have to be met."
Tear down mental walls on climate, German chancellor says [Individual.com - 11/03/2009]

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