Merkel Pushes For Binding Agreements At Berlin Climate Talks

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a binding agreement between the world's industrialized economies in order to ensure that the world's temperature does not rise by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) during the 21st century.

"We are determined to move forward boldly," the German chancellor said Sunday in Berlin at a meeting of representatives from 35 countries to make preparations for the next climate summit in Durban, South Africa. The summit in Durban is scheduled to kick off November 28.

Mitigating climate change will be "very expensive and very cumbersome," Merkel said, adding, however, that inaction would "certainly be more expensive." Read the full report here.

Source: DW-World.De.