Interview: Germany's top climate adviser
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Hans Joachim Schellnhuber talked with the Monitor upon his return from the just-concluded Bali talks.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel urges Europe to lead the fight against global warming, ahead of an EU summit.
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The head of the U.N. panel on climate change compared him to Hitler. Another leading scientist called him a parasite. A third described his latest book as a "stealth attack" on mankind.
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LONDON, Nov 1 (IPS) - Britain and Germany will seek to take joint lead   on initiatives to contain climate change at a conference in  Berlin this  week.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, June 6 -- As thousands of protesters clashed with police nearby, President Bush and leaders of other industrial nations traded markedly opposing views here Wednesday on how to combat global warming.
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(InfoWorld) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on politicians, business leaders, and researchers to cooperate more closely in helping the country secure a leading position in the global IT sector and pledged money to support collaborative efforts. Speaking at Germany's first-ever IT summit on Monday, Merkel said communications and telecommunications companies need to hook up with the country's traditional heavyweights such as the automotive and chemical sectors and collaborate more intensively in the area of software engineering. Already today more than half of the innovations in the automobile industry are based on software. The Chancellor pledged â¬1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) in grants over the next three years to support innovation in Germany's IT sector. The funds will come from the federal government's â¬15 billion high-tech investment program approved earlier this year. But Merkel was quick to add that in the future, industry grants should be carefully targeted and not simply "poured out of a watering can." Germany has seen its strong tradition of technological innovation steadily wane over the years, due in part to high labor costs that have deterred investment and declining university standards that have caused a brain drain. The country claims a number of IT achievements, including the Zuse, seen by some as the first freely programmable computer, and the MP3 audio compression algorithm. SAP Chief Executive OfficerÂ Henning Kagermann was blunt in his assessment of Germany's IT standing. Although the communications and telecommunications sectors combined employ around 800,000 people and generate annual revenue of around â¬150 billion, making it the country's largest industrial sector, "in a global comparison, we are not a leader and, even worse, we are falling behind," he said. In addition to funds, the government initiative calls for immigration policies designed to attract talented researchers from around the world, and grants to keep gifted students in the country.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium &#151; German Chancellor Angela Merkel will push her European Union counterparts to go green on energy at summit talks Thursday, urging them to adopt tough measures needed to fight global warming and reduce Europe's dependence on oil imports.
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Trade and climate set to top agenda as German Chancellor Angela Merkel heads to China and Japan.
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The Queen is to open a conference on climate change today during her state visit to Germany. The gathering, held at the British embassy in Berlin, will make recommendations on climate change to Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore urged the EU to lead the fight against global warming ahead of a summit that is due to pledge to slash greenhouse gases but leave key ...Comment
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 5 (IPS) - As a guest at the G8 summit this week in Germany,  Brazilian President Luiz InÃ¡cio Lula da Silva will present  arguments to convince the leaders of the world's eight  richest countries of the importance of biofuels in the fight  against global warming.
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US criticised by Germany and China, but minister says emissions wrangle 'should not overshadow progress'
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European leaders gave strong backing Thursday to an ambitious plan to combat climate change, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, but cautioned work is still needed on a key element - binding targets for ...Comment
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JOHANNESBURG, Jun 5 (IPS) - In the final hours before this week's Group of  Eight (G8) summit gets underway in Germany, activists have  underscored the need for progress with both climate change and  poverty alleviation -- key items on the meeting's agenda --  for there to be real improvement in Africa's living  conditions.
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POTSDAM, Germany Queen Elizabeth II opened a conference on climate change Wednesday and praised the progress made by Germany&#39;s formerly communist East.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - World leaders meeting in Germany have agreed to pursue "substantial" cuts in greenhouse gases, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday.
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BERLIN, Mar 13 (IPS) - The new EU commitment to reducing greenhouse gases   emissions by at least 20 percent by  2020 relative to 1990  levels is deceptive, leading German scientists say.