Pelosi today in Berlin:

News | 28.05.2007 | 12:00 UTC

German ministers press Pelosi on climate change


Climate change topped the agenda as US House of representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi met with German government ministers in Berlin. German foreign minister Frank Walter Steinmeier and environment minister Siegmar Gabriel met with a US delegation of environment politicians, headed by Pelosi. Gabriel voiced regret at the difficulty of persuading the US to take "concrete steps" against climate change. Pelosi, a Democrat, said she aimed to raise the issue with the Bush administration. Steinmeier said he hoped their differences could be worked out at next week's G8 summit in Heiligendamm.

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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and U.S. House of
Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (L) address a news conference
in Berlin May 28, 2007.
Bush should be open for G8 climate talks - Pelosi

28 May 2007 12:14:58 GMT
By Erik Kirschbaum

BERLIN, May 28 (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday President George W. Bush should be open to plans to fight climate change at a G8 meeting and willing to move forward in new ways with his partners.

The leader of the opposition Democrats said she and a bipartisan delegation of congressional leaders had made a stop in Greenland and saw how global warming was threatening the livelihood of people who were not to blame.

"We hope that we can all assume our responsibilities ... and that our administration will be open to listening to why it is important to go forward, perhaps in a different way than we proceeded in the past," Pelosi said.

Germany hosts the June 6-8 meeting of Group of Eight leaders that will focus on climate change. Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the club to agree steps to halt global warming to prepare the ground for an extension of the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012.

Pelosi told journalists she would meet Merkel on Tuesday "to personally congratulate her, and thank her, for her leadership".

Merkel faces resistance from Washington, which refused to sign up to Kyoto and opposes binding emission cut targets despite U.N. reports warning of rising sea levels, droughts and floods linked to climate change.

"This trip for us began in Greenland where we saw first-hand evidence that climate change is a reality," Pelosi said. "There is just no denying it. We saw the impact on the local people there, on their hunting, their fishing, their economic survival.

"And it wasn't caused by the people in Greenland. It was caused by the behaviour in the rest of the world." ...

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