“Germany calls Rick Perry’s Push to Rework Climate Agreement ‘absurd’”
Bloomberg
The German environment ministry (BMUB) has called suggestions by U.S. energy secretary Rick Perry to renegotiate the Paris Climate Agreement ‘absurd’, report Joe Ryan and Brian Parkin for Bloomberg. The agreement already lets nations adjust their own emissions targets, making it pointless for the U.S. to reopen talks in hopes of winning more favourable terms, ministry spokesman Michael Schroeren told Bloomberg. “That is, in the first place absurd, and secondly from the U.S. point of view, completely unnecessary,” Schroeren said.
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