Peter Altmaier
Greenpeace activists display a giant banner held up by balloons featuring German Environment Minister Peter Altmaier opposite the environment ministry in Berlin May 15, 2013. The Poster reads: 'Altmaier, protect the environment instead of coddling gas guzzlers'.
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We need to do our homework and we need to strengthen emissions trading in Europe
We're struggling to explain to honorable members of the European Parliament how important it is to provide a signal we so badly need in order to make ETS more effective and to increase its attractiveness worldwide
You can't do it the same way everywhere in Germany ... But I believe it can be a role model for many rural communities.More quotes »
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Germany Says Climate Talks Move Beyond Blame Game Before Warsaw
Climate talks that ended today in Berlin moved beyond a “blame game,” said Germany’s Environment Minister Peter Altmaier, after recent disagreements. Representatives from 35 nations met in the city before United Nations-mandated discussions on tackling c from National Snow & Ice Data Center Read more »
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US urges light-touch regulation of emissions as climate heats up
Starting tomorrow, German environment minister Peter Altmaier and his Polish counterpart, Marcin Korolec, will jointly host the fourth Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, involving a representative group of 35 of their colleagues from all regions of t from Irish Times Read more »
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EU efforts mount to save carbon market
Six environment and climate chiefs, including German Environment Minister Peter Altmaier and UK Energy and Climate Secretary Ed Davey, pressed European Union lawmakers to back a rescue plan for the world's biggest carbon market, as divisions persist befo from The Age Read more »
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German restarts hunt for nuclear waste dump
Peter Altmaier said agreement to find a new site “resolves amicably the last controversial topic in the atomic age”. After 36 years of political feuds and citizen protests, Germany has gone back to the drawing board in its hunt for somewhere to store its from Irish Times Read more »
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Nuclear waste to find a new home
The words that kept recurring at the talks on Tuesday evening (09.04.2013) were transparency, trust, and - above all - consensus. 35 years - that's how long it has taken for German federal and state politicians to agree to look again at where to site a p from Deutsche Welle Read more »
