News Digest Item
07 Sep 2018

First meeting of Franco-German inter-ministerial High Level Working Group on climate change

Climate & CO2 International
Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU)

Representatives from different ministries of the French and German governments met in Paris for the first meeting of the inter-ministerial High Level Working Group on climate change, the so-called “Meseberg Climate Working Group”, the environment ministry said in a press release. The group was decided in June 2018, after French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had vowed closer cooperation on climate and energy policy.

The working group looks at how each economic sector can make its contribution to reaching the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and how certain instruments - such as the EU budget, or “options for a price on CO₂” - can be used in the most efficient and intelligent way.

Find the press release in German here.

Read the article Merkel pledges stronger climate action globally and at home for background.

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