News Digest Item
08 Jul 2016

“Conservatives: Hendricks is pursuing a planned climate economy”

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The deputy heads of the conservative CDU and CSU parties in parliament say that environment minister Barbara Hendricks' Climate Action Plan 2050 draft fails to take account of the market, innovation and competitiveness and could endanger “the economy, prosperity and social peace” in Germany, according to a letter to the Chancellery which was seen by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. According to the four politicians, this was tantamount to a path to “a planned climate economy”. 

Read the article in German here.

Read a CLEW article on the latest changes to the Climate Action Plan 2050 draft.

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