My message to Tony Blair yesterday at the Bundestag was clear – don’t go wobbly on us on global warming. Blair, despite his titanic mistake on Iraq, has been right on global warming and was instrumental in putting it on the G-8 agenda, over the objections of President Bush. Now we need him to be aggressive, diligent, and persuasive when the G-8 meets in Germany this week.
June, 2007
Dispatch from Berlin
Here are two good pieces of news from Germany. First, we congressmen escaped from being stuck in a hot and crowded elevator in what was once East Berlin, built, we were told, by communist technology. No wonder the Soviet Union collapsed. Second, everybody in Europe agrees about the cap and trade system. They all agree it has worked however they all agree that a few things went wrong - pretty much like their elevator system.
On Wednesday, we met with a wide spectrum of Germany’s leadership from the Environmental Minister, to the Economic Advisor to Merkel, to the Foriegn Affairs Office. Since they are of different parties, it was a bit surprising to find such consensus.
