German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a spech at the start of the second day of the 10th Petersberger Klimadialog climate conference in Berlin, Germany, May 14, 2019. Tobias Schwarz/Pool via Reuters
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed on Tuesday to draw up a roadmap to make Germany CO2 neutral by 2050, urging a climate cabinet she chairs to find the best way to reach that goal.
"It's about climate neutrality. This means that we should not ensure there are absolutely no CO2 emissions but that if there are still CO2 emissions, we must find alternative mechanisms to store this CO2 or offset it," Merkel said.
"I therefore propose that we have a discussion in the climate cabinet about how we could reach the goal of being CO2 neutral by 2050 and the discussion should not be about whether we can reach that goal but about how we will reach it," she added.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a working session of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, an informal meeting of ministers and representatives from 35 countries focused on the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement in Berlin, Germany, May 14, 2019. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
(Reporting by Joseph Nasr; Editing by Michelle Martin)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses for a picture with students of the Sechta Ries school from Unterschneidheim after she left a working session of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, Germany, May 14, 2019. REUTERS/Fabrizio BenschGreenpeace environmental group stage a protest with words made of ice at the Brandenburg Gate near the venue of a session of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, an informal meeting of ministers and representatives from 35 countries focused on the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement in Berlin, Germany, May 14, 2019. REUTERS/Fabrizio BenschGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves a working session of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue next to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, May 14, 2019. REUTERS/Fabrizio BenschGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a working session of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, an informal meeting of ministers and representatives from 35 countries focused on the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement in Berlin, Germany, May 14, 2019. Picture taken through a window. REUTERS/Fabrizio BenschGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a spech at the start of the second day of the 10th Petersberger Klimadialog climate conference in Berlin, Germany, May 14, 2019. Tobias Schwarz/Pool via ReutersGreenpeace environmental group stage a protest with words made of ice at the Brandenburg Gate near the venue of a session of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, an informal meeting of ministers and representatives from 35 countries focused on the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement in Berlin, Germany, May 14, 2019. REUTERS/Fabrizio BenschGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a working session of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, an informal meeting of ministers and representatives from 35 countries focused on the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement in Berlin, Germany, May 14, 2019. REUTERS/Fabrizio BenschGreenpeace environmental group stage a protest with words made of ice at the Brandenburg Gate near the venue of a session of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, an informal meeting of ministers and representatives from 35 countries focused on the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement in Berlin, Germany, May 14, 2019. REUTERS/Fabrizio BenschGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel, Environment Minister Svenja Schulze and Chilean counterpart Maria Carolina Schmidt Zaldivar attend a working session of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, an informal meeting of ministers and representatives from 35 countries focused on the implementation of the Paris Climate Agreement in Berlin, Germany, May 14, 2019. Picture taken through a window. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
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