BRUSSELS ¨C Feted as Germany¡¯s ¡°climate chancellor,¡± Angela Merkel won international plaudits for her efforts to tackle global warming, but as she prepares to leave office, critics say domestic emissions cuts stagnated under her 16-year watch.
Merkel¡¯s conservatives were narrowly defeated in Sunday¡¯s election while the Greens emerged in a kingmaker role, suggesting climate issues will have an even higher profile in German politics over the years ahead, political analysts said.
¡°(The election result) will also shape next year¡¯s German G7 presidency, with Germany now set to solidify the G7 as an engine for climate action,¡± said Jennifer Tollmann, a senior policy adviser for the E3G think tank in Berlin.
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