During their discussions in Mainz, US President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder agreed on an action program for environmentally-friendly energy production and climate protection. They also professed general agreement on how to deal with Iran's apparent bid to create nuclear weapons. Here are the major points:

Iran

The two leaders agree that diplomacy should be the way to convince Iran not to build a nuclear arsenal -- though Bush still wants military intervention to be an option. Schroeder spoke first to reporters, and his comments on Iran were direct, calling on the country to give up its dreams of nuclear arms. "That is to say we absolutely agree that Iran must say 'no' to any kind of nuclear weapon, full stop. That is the joint target that Europeans uphold as much as the US Americans, and we are very much of the opinion that this goal needs to be achieved via a diplomatic path."

Bush, meanwhile, again implied that the US has not ruled out military strikes against Iran, saying "all options are on the table." He went on, speaking of his comments while in Brussels on Tuesday, "I ... reminded people that diplomacy is just beginning. Iran is not Iraq. ... We will work with (Europe) to convince the mullahs that they need to give up their nuclear ambitions."

Environment

Despite wide differences of opinion when it comes to domestic energy policy -- and notoriously on the Kyoto Protocol -- the two leaders managed to come to some agreement on energy and climate control. Again, Schroeder: "We also talked about climate problems that we have worldwide, and this is an area where we also need a solution. You know we have different -- or used to have different opinions about how to go about these things."

Bush, meanwhile, summarized their conversation by saying the two countries will work together "to help develop ways to be able to maintain our standards of living, and at the same time, be good stewards of the environment."

In the only concrete outcome of the meeting, the two leaders also agreed on a US-German joint action plan on clean energy and climate change. The three main points of the plan are: 1) Joint development of "cleaner, more efficient technologies to support sustainable development"; 2) Working together in "advancing climate science, and developing effective national tools for policy actions"; 3) Work to make the energy sector more efficient and to "address air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions" globally. Included in the action plan are commitments to work with developing nations to create more efficient energy sources, promoting hydrogen and fuel cell technology, working on domestic and international renewable energy.