Germany's Merkel 勧めるs 気候 活動／戦闘 in New Year message
BERLIN (AP) - （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 Angela Merkel is telling Germans in her New Year message that "everything humanly possible" must be done to 取り組む 気候 change.
Merkel said that there is good 推論する／理由 to be 確信して about the 2020s in her 年次の テレビ放送するd message, the text of which was 解放（する）d ahead of its broadcast Tuesday. But she pointed to challenges such as the 影響 of digitization on people's 職業s and, above all, 気候 change.
"The warming of our Earth is real. It is 脅すing. It and the crises arising from 全世界の warming were 原因（となる）d by humans," she said. "So we must do everything humanly possible to を取り引きする this challenge for humanity. That is still possible."
Merkel said that was the 原則 behind a recently agreed German 一括 of 対策 目的（とする）d at 演説（する）／住所ing 気候 change, which 含む a 炭酸ガス pricing system for the 輸送（する） and heating 部門s and lowering value-追加するd 税金 on long-distance rail tickets.
She 定評のある 批評 both from people who are worried about 存在 overburdened by the 対策 and from those who think they don't go far enough, but said they 供給する the "necessary 枠組み."
"It's true that, at 65, I am at an age where I 本人自身で won't experience all the consequences of 気候 change that would arise if 政治家，政治屋s didn't 行為／法令／行動する," she said.
German （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 Angela Merkel points as she arrives for the 週刊誌 閣議 at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
"It is our children and grandchildren who will have to live with the consequences of what we do or don't do today," Merkel 追加するd. "So I am putting all my energy into Germany making its 出資／貢献 - 生態学上, economically, socially - to getting a 支配する on 気候 change."
That is also a 優先 of the European Union's new (n)役員／(a)執行力のある （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限, 長，率いるd by Ursula 出身の der Leyen - a former German 弁護 大臣. Germany will 持つ／拘留する the EU's 回転／交替ing 大統領／総裁などの地位 in the second half of 2020.
"Europe must raise its 発言する／表明する more 堅固に in the world," Merkel said, 誓約（する）ing to work for that during the EU 大統領／総裁などの地位. She pointed to planned 会合s with Chinese and African leaders.
Merkel, Germany's leader since 2005, has said that her 現在の fourth 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 as （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 will be her last.
Unlike last year's, this New Year message 含む／封じ込めるd no 言及／関連 to infighting in the often-緊張した 連立政権 of her 中心-権利 Christian Democratic Union and the 中心-left Social 民主党員s. It remains uncertain whether the 連合 will last until the end of the 議会の 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 in 2021.
Merkel did, however, 強調する／ストレス the need for 当局 to 保護する 地元の 政府 公式の／役人s and "all people in our country against 憎悪, 敵意 and 暴力／激しさ, against 人種差別主義 and anti-Semitism."
This year saw the 殺人，大当り of a 地域の 政府 公式の／役人 from Merkel's party, Walter Luebcke, who had vocally supported Merkel's welcoming 姿勢 toward 難民s in 2015. The 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う is a far-権利 extrem ist.
And in October, a man tried to 軍隊 his way into a synagogue in Halle on Judaism's holiest day, later 殺人，大当り two passers-by before 存在 逮捕（する）d. The 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う 地位，任命するd an anti-Semitic screed before the attack.
German （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 Angela Merkel takes questions as part of a 会合 of the German 議会, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
