Klaus criticises Merkel's words on climate change

Prezident Václav Klaus vystoupil 4. listopadu na konferenci o ochraně klimatu, kterou v hlavním městě USA Washingtonu pořádal konzervativní deník The Washington Times. Klaus je v USA na několikadenní pracovní návštěvě.

published: 04.11.2009, 22:53 | updated: 04.11.2009 23:01:45

Klaus ve Washingtonu kritizoval výrok Merkelové o klimatu

Washington - Czech President Vaclav Klaus today criticised German Chancellor Angela Merkel for saying fight against global warming is a challenge similar to the pulling down of the Berlin Wall.

It is tragic to make such a comparison, Klaus told a conference on climate change, organised by The Washington Times daily.

In her address on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, Merkel said symbolical walls of the 21st century should be pulled down.

Apart from terrorism and global economic instability, she mentioned climate protection among these walls ahead of the forthcoming Copenhagen conference that is to set goals in reducing greenhouse gas emissions after 2012 when the Kyoto Protocol expires.

U.S. President Barack Obama named fight against global warming among his priorities.

Klaus repeated today that he believed the problem is not the climate but new utopian visions of the world related to climate protection.

He said carbon credits were similar to communist central planning. He said carbon trading should not be considered a market instrument.

Klaus said this was a government intervention because without it the credits had not value.

Author: ČTK
www.ctk.cz

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