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First goal already passé? Habeck gives a bitter prognosis - and also expects "disappointment and anger" afterwards

2021-12-29T15:58:02.463Z


First goal already passé? Habeck gives a bitter prognosis - and also expects "disappointment and anger" afterwards Created: 12/29/2021, 4:52 PM Climate protection minister Robert Habeck assumes that Germany will miss its climate targets in the coming years. (Archive image) © Imago The hopes for the new Federal Climate Protection Minister Robert Habeck are high. But Germany will probably not ach


First goal already passé?

Habeck gives a bitter prognosis - and also expects "disappointment and anger" afterwards

Created: 12/29/2021, 4:52 PM

Climate protection minister Robert Habeck assumes that Germany will miss its climate targets in the coming years.

(Archive image) © Imago

The hopes for the new Federal Climate Protection Minister Robert Habeck are high.

But Germany will probably not achieve its climate goals in the coming years either.

Berlin - The start for the new federal government is anything but easy: In addition to the corona crisis, the traffic light coalition must also fight the climate crisis.

Climate Protection Minister Robert Habeck has a particular responsibility.

But first of all, the still-Green boss has bad news: Habeck assumes that Germany will fail to meet the goals of the Climate Protection Act in 2022 and 2023 as well.

Robert Habeck predicts: Germany will miss climate targets

"We will probably still miss our goals for 2022, even for 2023 it will be difficult enough," said the Green politician in an interview with Die

Zeit

.

With a view to the reduction of climate-damaging greenhouse gases, he said: “We are starting with a drastic backlog.” Green parliamentary leader Katharina Dröge had also recently dampened voters' expectations.

The coalition agreement between the SPD, the Greens and the FDP offers "many opportunities" to make improvements in the future, should the individual sectors such as transport, agriculture or even energy fail to meet their CO2 reduction targets, explained Habeck.

All ministries have the “common will” to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees as possible compared to pre-industrial times and thus to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Climate protection in Germany: expansion of renewable energies - "2022 will be one of the most exhausting years"

In Germany there is no getting around the massive expansion of renewable energies, affirmed the Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection.

This also means that there will have to be wind turbines “almost everywhere where the wind blows”.

On average, there should be 1,000 to 1,500 new wind turbines a year, said Habeck - also depending on how many old systems could be replaced with new ones.

In the past few years there have been "little more than 450".

Regarding the goal of the new federal government to obtain 80 percent of electricity from renewable energies by the end of the decade, Habeck said: “It took us 30 years to get a 42 percent share.

Now we have a good eight years to get twice as much. ”By the end of 2022, the minister therefore wants to process all laws on the accelerated approval of wind turbines.

"Therefore, 2022 will be one of the most exhausting years this ministry has experienced in a long time," said Habeck at the

time

.

Habeck expects “disappointment and anger” in society

The necessary structural change on the labor market could lead to frustration in the population: “There will also be disappointment and perhaps anger, I have no illusions about that.

But if we do it well, society as a whole will benefit, ”said Habeck, referring to jobs that could be lost in the coal regions, for example.

That could be "bitter news" for those affected, said Habeck.

But he assured: "New jobs will be created, we are not running out of work, on the contrary." Society as a whole will benefit if the change succeeds.

(sf / dpa)

Source: merkur

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