Merkel Urges Nations to Reach Binding Climate Deal in Two Years
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said world leaders must do more to come to a binding global agreement to cut greenhouse gases by 2015 as inaction would increase the costs of climate change.
Even if industrialized nations were to stop emitting carbon dioxide tomorrow, the world would miss its target to keep warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) from pre-industrial levels, Merkel said at a climate conference today in Berlin.