Environment: Angela Merkel hopes for new impetus for COP26
German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, June 2, 2021. REUTERS - ANNEGRET HILSE
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The question of the environment, celebrated this Saturday, June 5, will occupy a central place in the campaign for the German federal elections.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has devoted her weekly podcast to it.
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With our correspondent in Berlin,
Pascal Thibaut
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The breakthroughs we have set for ourselves are ambitious, but we can achieve them.
The next few years will be decisive.
Angela Merkel wanted to be optimistic in her weekly podcast dedicated to the fight against global warming.
While a conference opened on Friday in Bonn to prepare for COP26, the Chancellor ruled that this meeting in the fall should be marked by new advances.
“
The year 2021 can be an important year for the protection of the environment.
The
Paris Agreement
shows us the way.
When the international community meets in Glasgow at the end of the year, this conference should give new impetus and concrete measures
, ”said the Chancellor.
Angela Merkel welcomed the progress already made in Europe with the objective of climate neutrality by 2050. The Chancellor recalled that her country has recently hardened its ambitions.
Germany wants to reduce its greenhouse gases by 65% by 2030 compared to 1990 instead of 55% previously.
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See also: Germany strengthens its commitments in the fight against global warming
A bill rushed through last month after a Constitutional Court ruling argued that the long-term dangers of global warming for younger generations had not been sufficiently addressed by previous measures.
With the decline of the Covid pandemic, the environment is essential in the German pre-election campaign.
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