Germany, Europe's biggest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions, hopes to sign partnership deals for emission cuts with Mexico and Brazil at the United Nations climate change conference in Montreal later this month, a government official said on Tuesday.

Germany is in talks with a raft of countries on memoranda of understanding (MOUs) aimed at helping German firms earn carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction credits abroad, said Franzjosef Schafhausen, head of the Berlin government's climate working group.

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