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Opinion: Spare Germany the blackouts



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The German government needed a rap on the knuckles from the country’s Constitutional Court to realize it needed to be more ambitious when it came to its carbon emission reduction goals. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government responded with an uncharacteristic swiftness as if it had expected it, coming up within a week with the most ambitious climate neutrality target among major economies. Berlin now plans to become carbon-neutral by 2045 rather than 2050, avoiding nearly 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions. The amended Climate Change Act also calls for cutting CO2 emissions by at least 65% from 1990 levels by 2030. The previous goal was a 55% …

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