EU adopts binding energy, climate targets: Merkel
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European Union leaders agreed a full package of binding measures on Friday to build a common energy policy and fight climate change, challenging the world to follow suit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
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European Union leaders broke off talks late Thursday with no final agreement on an ambitious action plan to fight climate change, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has made climate change a key focus of her presidency of the G8 group of world leaders, flew Wednesday into Japan for talks a decade after the Kyoto Protocol.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel&#39;s coalition signed off on reform goals for the last two years of its term Friday, sealing a climate change pact and agreeing to lift some limits on foreign workers.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday night that she would sidestep Poland's objections to a new European Union governing treaty by forging ahead with negotiations and hoping Warsaw will join in later.
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The European Commission is to detail wide-ranging proposals for achieving its goals on climate and energy.
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BRUSSELS -- Europe yesterday embarked on a bold path to fight climate change, agreeing that a fifth of the energy used by the 27-nation bloc by 2020 will come from renewable sources such as the sun and the wind, and challenging the rest of the world to follow.
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Britain will stage a u-turn by supporting European proposals for binding targets on renewable energy generation.
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Germany's chancellor says the leaders of the G8 nations have agreed a compromise deal on climate change.
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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 the rest of the world to follow.
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European leaders, looking to set the pace in the race against global warming, consider tough new targets.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday she was confident world powers would agree on further steps to take against Iran, which has repeatedly defied international calls to suspend its nuclear fuel programme.
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Science & environment: European commission to tell member states what they have to do to meet its plan to cut emissions
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday the moment was right to come up with new measures to combat global warming and vowed that the world's industrialized countries ...Comment
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European Union leaders are on the brink of striking an agreement on Friday to set a binding pan-European target for renewable energy sources as part of an ambitious strategy to fight climate change.Comment
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday pledged to oppose a strict European Union limit on cars' average carbon dioxide emissions, arguing that different models should face different caps.Comment
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The European Union said Saturday it supported a compromise proposal on upcoming negotiations for a new global warming pact, bringing the contentious talks nearer to resolution.