New Europe: The financial turmoil that has brought down a series of US and European banks is making a world climate-change accord difficult to achieve, Germany warned on September 30 at the start of a conference in Berlin. “You can’t rule out that interest in saving the climate will change,” said Foreign Minister Frank- Walter Steinmeier, making a point that US state governors at the meeting confirmed. “Bailing out a major bank could be seen (in the United States) as more urgent than dealing with …