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2/6/07

Spiegel OnLine: Germany Under Fire for Climate Change Hypocrisy

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Germany Under Fire for Climate Change Hypocrisy

The new UN report on climate change has increased pressure on governments around the world to act on global warming. However the German government is being criticized for resisting EU moves to reduce car emissions.

Reactions to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on climate change have been quick. The report, which was released Friday and contains the UN's strongest conclusion yet that human activities are leading to global warming, made headlines around the world and provided new impetus for action on climate change.

On Saturday, 45 countries joined France in calling for a new international environmental organization to act on climate change. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, too, is sending out mixed messages on climate change.She is under fire for her government's threats to block an EU attempt to impose emissions reductions on the automobile industry. The German car industry is one of the country's key industrial sectors and forms a powerful political lobby.

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