Merkel's Climate Crusading Risks Being Blemished by VW Scandal
- Chancellor lauded carmakers in Frankfurt for emissions efforts
- Merkel travels to UN later this week to discuss green push
Can VW Win Back Trust After Admitting Diesel Dupes?
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s lectures on environmental responsibility may ring a little hollow when she heads to New York this weekend.
Merkel, who for years has straddled between pushing to reduce global warming while protecting her country’s auto industry, is faced with Volkswagen AG’s emissions-cheating scandal just as she travels to the United Nations to cajole leaders into making binding commitments ahead of a global climate summit in Paris in December. Those efforts follow a Group of Seven summit she hosted in June, where Merkel, a former environment minister, extracted pledges to stamp out fossil-fuel emissions by the end of the century.