Germany confirms accepts EU CO2 emissions cap

BERLIN, Feb 9 (Reuters) Germany will accept a European Union cap on carbon dioxide emissions of 453.1 million tonnes a year and abandon any legal challenge to push through its demand for 465 million tonnes, a government spokesman today said.

''We were able to push through several of our points but on the upper level of the quotas there was no change.'' ''Germany will not appeal against the European Commission carbon dioxide emissions cap,'' spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said at a government news conference.

Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel had told a Berlin newspaper yesterday on the fringes of a UN environment meeting in Nairobi that Germany would drop its demand for the higher allowance, which Brussels had said was not negotiable.

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