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Germany鈥檚 chief climate diplomat Karsten Sach has stressed the need for China and Germany to show joint 鈥減ragmatic鈥� leadership in climate protection in light of new disorder in international climate diplomacy following the decision of US President Donald Trump to pull his country out of the Paris Climate Agreement. At a conference by the Mercator Institute for China Studies (Merics) in Berlin, the climate policy director at the German environment ministry (BMUB) said Beijing鈥檚 and Berlin鈥檚 intensified climate cooperation at the G20 summit in Hamburg was needed 鈥渢o show we are moving in the right direction and strive to find solutions鈥� for mitigating and limiting global warming. Sach said this meant the two countries had to sustain collaboration on 鈥済etting carbon prices right鈥� via a jointly developed emissions trading system, intensify common deliberation on e-mobility infrastructure and also expand on joint efforts to promote green growth opportunities in third countries, for instance in South East Asia or Africa. Germany and China may be structured very differently and disagree on a number of issues, but there also were many shared 鈥渃ore interests鈥� for the two exporting nations that had only increased in importance over the last years.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel may not want to be US President Donald Trump鈥檚 opponent, but she is, writes Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 鈥淭his could pay off in terms of domestic politics,鈥� as other parties had called on her to take a tougher stance, writes Frankenberger.

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The United States鈥� delegation successfully pushed for significant changes to the G20 climate and energy action plan draft during working group negotiations, reports Arthur Neslen for Climate Home. The latest draft of the plan, which was initiated by the German government with the aim to be adopted by the world鈥檚 largest economies at the Hamburg summit next week, lacked the ambitious language on energy and defined natural gas as clean technology, writes Neslen.

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Climate policy should be integrated with the G20 finance ministers鈥� agenda in order to stay below the 2 degrees Celsius guardrail set in the Paris Agreement, a team of authors including Ottmar Edenhofer, director of Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), write in an article in Nature Climate Change. 鈥淔inance ministers should consider the merits of carbon pricing for sound fiscal policy and thereby stimulate investments in carbon-free infrastructure,鈥� writes MCC in a press release on the article.

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The federal economy ministry鈥檚 proposed new strategy 鈥溌槎刮蘼氚� efficiency and heat from renewable energies鈥� could endanger Germany鈥檚 climate goals as it hindered house owners from installing modern fossil fuel-based heating systems, say conservative politicians, writes Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt. These were already cleaner than old systems and, if forbidden, owners could be inclined to keep their old systems for as long as possible because of the current price of renewables-based systems, writes Wetzel.

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