News Digest Item
04 Oct 2018

Germany has turned against action on climate change

Unearthed

The German government has been fighting for weaker EU climate targets, car emission standards and coal pollution rules, writes Zach Boren for the Greenpeace journalism project Unearthed. “The widely reported fight for the [Hambach] forest may be the German government’s most visible move to defend fossil fuels, but behind the scenes it has been quietly taking a number of positions at odds with the country’s Energiewende-inspired green rhetoric,” according to Boren.

Read the article in English here.

All texts created by the Clean Energy Wire are available under a “Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0)” . They can be copied, shared and made publicly accessible by users so long as they give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

Journalism for the energy transition

Get our Newsletter
Join our Network
Find an interviewee