With eye on legacy, Blair mulls climate change with Merkel
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Prime Minister Tony Blair heads to Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with moves towards securing a new deal on tackling climate change top of the agenda.
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BERLIN -- Days before hosting a Group of Eight summit that has already drawn violent protests, German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday said she welcomed President Bush's initiative on global warming but insisted it must fall within the framework of United Nations treaty negotiations. Merkel made the comments during a news conference with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, who concurred ...
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LONDON, June 26 -- Tony Blair, in his last news conference as British prime minister, joined California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday in calling for world leaders to take action on climate change.
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LONDON, UK, September 15, 2004 (ENS) - Immediate action is needed to tackle global warming, "the world's greatest environmental challenge," Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday night. Blair called it a challenge "so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence."
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On the second day of her state visit to Germany, Britain&#39;s Queen Elizabeth II demonstrated her concern for environmental issues, opening a joint German-British climate conference.
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Business & money: First meeting of PM's advisers will discuss globalisation, climate change and skills.
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Tony Blair is to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss aid and climate change ahead of the G8 summit.
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Persuading Washington to support global efforts to tackle climate change is Britain's main challenge over the coming months, Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Saturday.
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Washington - Nations must be ready to make economic sacrifices to fight global warming, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday.Comment
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Tony Blair is due to take his post-prime ministerial earnings to more than Â£7m this year following his appointment to a six-figure-salary job with Zurich Insurance, the Swiss financial firm, advising it on climate change
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Tony Blair will get short shrift from  George W. Bush on global warming when he leads the G8 in 2005  but the fight with Washington might help him shed the "poodle"  tag he got over support for the Iraq war, analysts say.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will meet California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday to discuss climate change in his final official meeting with a foreign official, Blair's office said.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged China on Monday to do more to halt climate change, prompting the response that the developed West has been polluting the skies for much longer than the newly developing Chinese.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair warned on Tuesday of the threat posed by climate change and urged support for the principles of the Kyoto accord on global warming, a treaty rejected by President Bush as unfair toward U.S. industry.
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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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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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DAVOS, Switzerland -- Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain and President Jacques Chirac of France urged political and economic leaders yesterday to take drastic action against poverty and global warming as the World Economic Forum began its annual meeting here.