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Germany and Italy are the biggest climate laggards in Europe, study finds
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2024
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Wissing to be honest. The transport sector is the only one to miss the target badly. Funnily enough 15billion⬠is about as much as is currently missing to fix up the German railway network. As in fix it, not expand it.
Lindner trying to keep the Schuldenbremse no matter what doesn't help either. Spending money on fighting climate change now could mitigate some of the climate change damages in future, but I guess it's more important to save every possible cent now... π€·
Future citizens will live in a total shithole, but at least they are less indebted.
Well of course. Germany has been opening coal plants in favor of nuclear plants.
No. Coal in general is in decline in Germany despite the shutdown of nuclear power plants. Some coal power plants were reactivated in 2022 to cover the shortage of gas, but at the same time the run time of the remaining nuclear power plants was extended by around 3 months. The reactivated coal power plants were shut down around the same time as the nuclear power plants.
This is what I meant. But I did not know the details.
That's not true at all. We've not burned as little coal as today since 1959.
While that's true, the article says
The two countries are so far off track of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in industries like transportation and buildings