Germany to Put Global Warming Back on G8 Agenda

Germany will make fighting climate change a top priority when it takes control of the G8 next year and will try to persuade the United States of its importance, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday.

Merkel, a former environment minister, said she wants to put cutting emissions of the “greenhouse gases” blamed for global warming back on the agenda of leading industrial nations after Russia played down the issue during its G8 presidency in 2006.