Germany supports binding climate agreement at Durban conference

Germany has expressed its support for a comprehensive climate protection agreement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, which started on 28 November.

The German government’s environment ministry has said it wants a binding agreement on lowering the increase of global temperature to two degrees centigrade. The ministry said Germany had already decided to lower its emissions by 40 per cent compared to 1990 levels, and that other countries, in particularly high-emission countries, should follow suit.