Germans Face Leap in Green Power to Meet Higher EU Ambitions
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Germany has to massively accelerate the greening of energy and transportation this decade in order to hit lower European Union emissions targets.
That’s the conclusion of environmental analysts at Agora Energiewende and the Climate Neutrality Foundation. The EU’s biggest economy and emitter of greenhouse gases will have to quicken the pace of new clean-power generation and drop carbon dioxide pollution by 65% in order to comply with new EU targets by 2030, wrote the researchers in a report published Thursday.