“A Renewable Energy Act with little effect on the climate”
Der Tagesspiegel
The German government is paying more attention to its internal coalition agreement from 2013 than to the Paris Climate Agreement, Dagmar Dehmer writes in an op-ed for the Tagesspiegel. This is why the reformed Renewable Energy Act could does not support more than 40-45 percent of renewables by 2025 – even though this means that the energy transition is suffering from two flaws: it doesn’t reduce CO2 emissions, and the renewable targets are not high enough to produce enough electricity for a decarbonised transport sector, Dehmer says.
Read the op-ed in German here.
Read a CLEW dossier on the Reform of the Renewable Energy Act.
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