German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, warned Monday that the process of global warming will accelerate quickly unless world leaders reach an agreement as soon as possible to limit the emission of greenhouse gases.
After the international talks held in Durban, South Africa last December, the participating countries agreed to develop a new agreement by 2015, that would force the largest polluters to reduce emissions. But at that time, some felt that this plan was not ambitious enough to stop global warming.
“Time is of fundamental importance,” Merkel stressed during an international conference in Berlin, where delegates from over 30 countries are preparing the conference of the UN climate to be held in Qatar later this year. The participants are discussing how to prevent temperatures from rising more than two degrees Celsius.
However, the German Minister of Environment questioned on Sunday in an interview with the newspaper “Bild am Sonntag”, the capacity of the country to meet its own objectives in the fight against climate change.
Some of these objectives are to introduce a million electric cars and reduce energy consumption 10 percent by 2020. In early 2012, only 4,541 were in used electric cars, according to the German Federal Authority for Transport with Motor.