News Digest Item
07 Sep 2016

Government avoids concrete targets in weakened Climate Action Plan

Clean Energy Wire

Environmental organisations have responded to a government proposal to decarbonise the economy with outrage. They say the Climate Action Plan 2050 will fall well short of meeting climate targets, and accuse the environment ministry of caving in to pressure from the economics ministry and Angela Merkel’s Chancellery to water down ambitious plans and drop important details, like a deadline for the coal exit.

Read the CLEW article in English here.

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