News Digest Item
18 Nov 2016

"Germany wrestles with brown coal headache"

Australian Financial Times

Low carbon prices within the EU have helped coal power plants remain competitive, and put German emissions targets in danger, writes Angela Macdonald-Smith for Australian Financial Times. The “political argy-bargy” surrounding the approval of the government’s Climate Action Plan 2050 showed that Germany “hasn’t found the answer […] to the problem of brown coal”, writes Macdonald-Smith.

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