News Digest Item
11 May 2017

“Divestment will not block German lignite”

energy post

Energy expert Jeffrey Michel provides an overview of lignite use in Germany in an article for energy post. Among other things, he suggests divestment strategies could have minimal or negative effects on German lignite policy, jobs, structural change and the environment.

Read the article in English here.

For background read the CLEW factsheet When will Germany finally ditch coal?

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