Germany's Greens pitch climate ministry to boost faltering campaign


  • World
  • Tuesday, 03 Aug 2021

FILE PHOTO: Annalena Baerbock, co-leader of Germany's Green (Die Gruenen) party and top candidate for the upcoming national election, addresses a news conference on the follow-up of the flood disaster at the house of the Federal Press Conference (Bundespressekonferenz) in Berlin, Germany July 26, 2021. Stefanie Loos/Pool via REUTERS

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's Greens presented an "emergency climate protection programme" on Tuesday, aiming to reset their national election campaign after squandering an early surge in opinion polls with a raft of mistakes.

The programme includes plans for a new Ministry for Climate Protection that would ensure no legislative project undermines a goal of limiting global warming under the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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