“The challenge of cutting coal dependence”
New York Times
A worldwide coal exit will be difficult as coal remains the easiest and often cheapest source of base power and many jobs still depend on the fossil fuel, writes Eduardo Porter in a column in New York Times. In Germany, “only about 63,000 jobs are directly or indirectly related to coal out of a total work force of 43 million. But they are well organized into powerful unions,” he says. This has led the government to discard the idea of a climate levy and to omit a coal deadline from the Climate Action Plan 2050, as currently proposed by environment minister Barbara Hendricks.
Read the article in English here.
For background, read the CLEW article CO2 targets and coal deadline omitted from Climate Action Plan draft.
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