Germans prepare to fight US on climate
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BERLIN -- Germany and some of its partners in the Group of 8 leading industrial economies are bracing for a major conflict with the United States at a summit meeting next week, with the Bush administration expected to block a declaration on global warming, European officials said during the weekend.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel claimed a breakthrough in the fight against climate change on Friday after proposing a European Union summit compromise to set a binding target for renewable fuels.
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The US defends its decision not to sign up to the Kyoto climate change treaty with an attack on Europe's record.
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Trade and climate issues will top the agenda as German Chancellor Angela Merkel begins a visit to China.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Two sets of Americans have come here to talk global warming: the United States, opposed to controls on carbon emissions, and a bloc of united states, from Maine to Delaware, that plan to impose them.
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Leaders from the world's major industrialized nations will try to paper over deep divisions on global warming and a range of foreign policy issues when they meet on the Baltic coast this week for a G8 summit.
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The EU, United Nations and G8 president  Germany urged U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday to help  strike a U.N. deal to combat climate change at a summit of  major powers this week and not to pursue rival proposals.
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The United States is preparing to reject new targets on climate change at a Group of Eight summit next month, dashing German and British hopes for a new global pact on carbon emissions, according to comments on a document released by the environmental group Greenpeace.
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Divisions over how to fight global warming threatened Thursday to overshadow a summit meeting aimed at making the European Union the world leader in the battle against climate change.Comment
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Germans love their fast cars, but they also love nature, and their country is setting a bar for the world in developing the technologies to replace oil.
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In getting European automakers to adhere to new limits on carbon dioxide emissions, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany will have to take on the industry at home.
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European nations will boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington accepts a range of numbers for negotiating deep reductions of global-warming emissions, Germany's environment minister said Thursday.
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Germany's government plans to tax cars based on emissions instead of engine size to help tackle climate change, Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said.Comment
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By DAVID STRINGER LONDON - The United States is preparing to reject new targets on climate change at a Group of Eight summit next month, dashing German and British hopes for a new global pact on carbon emissions, according to a document released by environmentalists.
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Europe embarked on a bold path to fight climate change Friday, agreeing that a fifth of the energy used by the 27-nation bloc by 2020 will come from renewable sources like the sun and the wind, and challenging ...Comment
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Germany wants the US to include its Nato allies in talks on a missile defence shield in Europe.
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U.S. officials have raised a second round of unusually bluntly worded objections to a proposed global-warming declaration that Germany prepared for next month's Group of Eight summit, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.