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Germany set to miss net zero by 2045 target as climate efforts falter (www.reuters.com)

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[–] [email protected] 138 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (17 children)

The UK likes to go the other way by talking up a ridiculous goal and then immediately failing it, like "Our goal is to produce zero CO2 and become the global leader in renewables by 2025” and then immediately open a new coal mine.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (16 children)

That's basically what Germany did. They recently shut down their nuclear plants and restarted their coal plants.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (5 children)

And yet coal power production is practically at the lowest level ever (except for corona months 03/20 and 04/20)

https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=de&c=DE&chartColumnSorting=default&year=-1&month=-1&stacking=stacked_absolute×lider=1&legendItems=000001010000000000000

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

It should be 0.

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