“We will probably still miss our targets for 2022, even for 2023 it will be difficult enough.”
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Berlin Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, assumes that Germany will probably miss the climate targets formulated by the Climate Protection Act in the next two years. “We will probably still miss our targets for 2022, even for 2023 it will be difficult enough. We’re starting with a drastic lag, “said the Green politician in an interview with” Die Zeit “.
When asked how the sector goals in the area of transport should be adhered to, he formulated expectations of FDP Transport Minister Volker Wissing: “There are measures that are not excluded in the coalition agreement that will then be introduced by the Transport Minister.”
Habeck also expects that the structural change brought about by the new federal government’s climate policy will lead to frustration among the population: “New jobs will be created, we won’t run out of work, quite the opposite.”
However, this goes hand in hand with the fact that old jobs – for example in coal mining – will disappear or change – “and that can be bitter news for individuals or regions”. So there will also be disappointment and maybe anger. “I’m under no illusions,” quotes the newspaper “Zeit” as saying the new minister. In view of the increase in renewable energies in the electricity mix stipulated in the Climate Protection Act in Germany, according to Habeck, there is “an implicit wind power obligation”.
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Habeck disagreed with the assessment that the nuclear phase-out was a mistake. A politician who calls for the reconstruction of atomic energy “would then have to say that I would like to have the nuclear waste repository in my constituency. As soon as someone says that, I’ll deal with the subject again. ”
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