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Germany Reports First Greenhouse Emissions Fall in Five Years

Staff Writer by Staff Writer
04/02/19
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A coal-burning power plant steams behind wind generators in Gelsenkirchen, Germany while the 23rd UN Conference of the Parties (COP) climate talks end in Bonn, Germany, Friday, Nov. 17, 2017. Photo: Martin Meissner/AP

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Germany said Tuesday it had reduced emissions of greenhouse gases significantly for the first time in five years in 2018, although it has already abandoned self-imposed targets for the end of this decade.

Europe’s largest economy – which is haltingly transitioning away from coal and nuclear to cleaner energy forms – lowered output of the gases by 4.2 percent year-on-year, environment minister Svenja Schulze said in a report.

A helping hand came from the unusually mild weather, which reduced the need for heating.

But Germany also “drew more energy from wind and the sun and less from coal, oil, and gas,” Schulze said.

#EuronewsNow | "Time's almost up … we are demanding climate action".

Students in over 55 towns across Germany are demonstrating – calling on their governments to act on climate change. Louisa, a student organising the protests, spoke with Euronews' @JessicaSaltz1. pic.twitter.com/0vGZ5JvWw0

— euronews (@euronews) January 18, 2019

It also achieved a slight reduction in emissions from transport.

In total, Germany pumped 868.7 million tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, some 30.6 percent below levels in 1990  – the year taken as a benchmark for its climate targets.

Last year, Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s fourth government officially gave up on the goal of slashing output by 40 percent by 2020.

Experts had long highlighted the goal as unachievable.

But Berlin still aims to cut greenhouse emissions by 55 percent by 2030 compared with 40 years before, with a long-term goal of zero net output by 2050.

“In the course of this year,” minister Schulze aims to pass a far-reaching climate law with a “detailed road map” for energy production, taking into account a planned exit from coal power by 2038.


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Thousands of German youths went on strike from school on Friday, joining Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg who has taken her protest against climate change to Berlin.

Armed with homemade posters bearing slogans like “It’s getting hot in here” or “Our house is on fire” or “You’re never too small to make a difference,” the teenagers packed into a park in central Berlin to sound the alarm about global warming.

From the park in front of the economy ministry, they were to march to Brandenburg Gate, where Thunberg, who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, is due to address the crowd.

Thousands of German Teens Join Thunberg’s Climate Fight

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