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09 Sep 2016

Hendricks' “legacy”

Kölner Stadtanzeiger

The Integrated Environment Programme 2030 environment minister Barbara Hendricks published yesterday reads in part like her political legacy and in part like a self-confident settling of accounts with some of her cabinet colleagues, writes Thorsten Knuf in an article for Kölner Stadtanzeiger. For instance, while a date for a coal exit for Germany was omitted from Hendricks’ Climate Action Plan 2050, she now says in her environment programme: “The environment ministry will support that electricity generation based on coal be ended in time before 2050 in a wide dialogue with all stakeholders.”

Read the article in German here.

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