“Trade union welcomes new climate policy”
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Germany’s IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE) trade union, which covers workers in the mining, chemicals and energy sectors, has welcomed the move by likely coalition partners CDU/CSU and SPD to give up on 2020 climate protection targets, Detlef Esslinger writes in Süddeutsche Zeitung. Outlining its strategy, the IG BCE said it would seek to develop and modernise electricity grids and storage facilities; push for an end to renewable energy subsidies, and replace the renewable energy surcharge with a tax-payer-funded solution; and targeted subsidies of cutting-edge technologies.
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