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‘People Believe Passionately About This Issue’

-- Mike -- 02/14/2007

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he was staking his remaining months in office on reaching a new international agreement on climate change.

After talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Blair said he hoped to help thrash out compromises on a new accord to succeed the Kyoto Protocol governing reductions in greenhouse gases which expires in 2012.

"These next few months are absolutely crucial," Blair said.

"I think there is broad agreement in the world today on the threat that climate change poses to our environment and our planet.

"There is also an enormous drive in civic society. People believe passionately about this issue."

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