Angela Merkel’s government has promised more than half a billion euros to revitalise the country’s crisis-hit forests in the fight against climate change. At the emergency forest summit, which took place yesterday at the invitation of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture in Berlin, Federal Minister of Agriculture Julia Klöckner has pledged funds amounting to 547 million euros. Combined with the co-financing by the federal states this results in a sum of approximately 800 million euro. These funds are to be used within four years for the clearance of damaged wood and for reforestation ...