“Final spurt for the climate”
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Germany is making haste in ratifying the Paris Climate Agreement partly over fears that Donald Trump will pull out of the deal before it comes into force if he becomes US president, writes Michael Bauchmüller in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “Time is pressing, and so is Donald Trump.” The first chamber of the German parliament (Bundestag) will debate the agreement today, is set to vote on it tomorrow, and send it on to the second chamber (Bundesrat), where the state governments decide, on Friday.
Read the article in German here.
Find all the background on the Paris negotiations in the CLEW dossier COP21 – The view from Germany.
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