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Germany's Merz Addresses Critics with Climate Action Pledge

Merz says Germany must curb climate change and adapt to extreme heat after a summer that caused 14,000 heat-related deaths, officials said.

"We have to further curb climate change and at the same time better adapt to the consequences," Merz said at the start of a two-day retreat outside Berlin with members of the cabinet. Germany had to "draw the long-term lessons from extreme situations such as this summer of heat," he said, adding that the biggest EU economy had suffered "significant damage" over recent months. A heatwave in late June saw Germany break its all-time temperature rec…

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"We must continue to curb climate change and, at the same time, better adapt our country to its consequences," said the conservative leader on the sidelines of a re-entry seminar of his government coalition with the Social Democrats. "In particular, he calls for "teaching long-term lessons from extreme situations such as this summer's heat wave." Unprecedented drop in the level of the Rhine, poor harvests for wine growers and cereal farmers, gro…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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France24 broke the news in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France on Tuesday, August 25, 2026.
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