EU says Germany stifling progress on climate change
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Germany's lack of progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions is holding back international efforts to combat global warming, the European Union's Environment Commissioner was quoted as saying on Sunday.Comment
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that she was opposed to an EU legally-binding limit on cars' average carbon dioxide emissions as part of the EU efforts to cut average emissions for new cars.Comment
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - Europe expects to overcome a dispute with the United States blocking the launch of negotiations on a new climate treaty beyond 2012 at U.N. talks in Bali, Germany said on the final day on Friday.
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President George W. Bush's plan to tackle climate change merely restates U.S. policy which has been ineffective in the past in cutting emissions blamed for global warming, the EU's environment chief said on Friday.
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European Union leaders clinched a landmark climate change accord on Friday cbut postponed the thorny task of setting mandatory renewable energy goals for each member country to meet.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - The European Union and  the United States struggled to break a deadlock on the last day  of a U.N. climate-change meeting on Friday, but Washington  resisted Europe's interest in steps to fight global warming  after the international Kyoto pact ends in 2012.
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Germany's Angela Merkel faces difficult G8 talks amid rows over missile defence and climate change goals.
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Germany urged its European Union partners to move ahead on a new treaty of reforms without Poland, after Warsaw rejected an offer to modify the bloc&#39;s voting system in its favour.
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Germany turned up the heat on Poland in a clash over reforms of the European Union on Friday, threatening to launch negotiations on a new treaty without Warsaw's assent.
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Negotiators at climate  talks in Bali tried to break a deadlock on Friday over  emissions goals after the European Union accused the United  States of blocking progress at the 190-nation meeting.
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The pace of international climate negotiations need to be "accelerated considerably", EU ministers warn.
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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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In advance of the G8 summit, European leaders are wary of the President's new proposal on addressing climate change
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BRUSSELS, Feb 10 (IPS) - Environmental groups are criticising European  Commission proposals for the bloc's policy on climate change  post-2012, saying they fail to establish legally binding targets  for curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
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The U.S. and Europe headed toward a compromise solution Friday at the U.N. climate conference, breaking a deadlock over how ambitious the goal should be in negotiating future cutbacks in global warming gases, the German environment minister said.
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Europeans push for explicit 25-40% carbon cuts by 2020, but US resists
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Germany's chancellor says the leaders of the G8 nations have agreed a compromise deal on climate change.