News Digest Item
11 Jan 2018

“One-and-a-half-year postponement still outstanding"

Deutschlandfunk

In an interview with Deutschlandfunk’s Jörg Münchenberg, Dieter Kempf, president of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), says reaching Germany’s 2020 target 18 months later would still be a very positive step. “I believe that the world can see very well that under the changed conditions, booming economy, therefore more energy consumption, significantly more people, therefore more energy consumption, […] a one-and-a-half-year delayed achievement of the goal would still be an excellent and exemplary achievement for many other countries.”

Read the interview in German here.

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