“National solo efforts in climate protection achieve little“
Die Welt
If the goal is to limit global greenhouse gas emissions, it is inefficient to break this down into individual national targets, writes Christoph M. Schmidt of Rhineland-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI Essen) in a guest commentary in Die Welt. The aim has to be to “save the next tonne of greenhouse gas emissions wherever the reduction cost is lowest”, and share the cost globally, according to Schmidt. He says that the German government should make use of its G-20 presidency to achieve a “global solution” for climate policy efforts.
Read the guest commentary in German here.
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