Merkel Says World Must Increase Climate Efforts or Risk Warming

Bloomberg: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said nations must increase climate-protection efforts or risk warming the planet by as much as 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 Fahrenheit). Current voluntary pledges to cut emissions are insufficient to meet a target to limit warming since industrialization to 2 degrees, Merkel said today at a climate meeting in Berlin. A United Nations summit this year in Qatar "must urgently provide us with new momentum" toward a new climate treaty, she said. Envoys from more than 190...

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