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Germany鈥檚 reputation as a climate protection leader is slipping following reports that a coalition government between the CDU/CSU and SPD would postpone the country鈥檚 2020 emissions target, Megan Darby writes in Climate Home News. 鈥淓xperts described a draft coalition agreement that defers the goal as 鈥榙isheartening鈥�, 鈥榩roblematic鈥� and 鈥榲ery weak鈥�,鈥� Darby points out. The decision by 鈥渁 generally constructive player casts a shadow over international efforts to tackle climate change鈥�, which have already been weakened by US President Donald Trump鈥檚 decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, she adds.

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Read the 威力彩玩法 report on the plan by coalition negotiators to postpone Germany鈥檚 2020 climate target here. 聽

Rainfall is increasing due to climate change and more people will become victims of floods than previously thought in the near future, according to a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) published in Science Advances. Researchers are calling for greater investment in flood protection in Germany as well as many other parts of the world. The number of people at risk of flooding will increase dramatically in the next 25 years without significant investment in dike construction, altered building standards and relocations, the study found. The highest risks are in the US, parts of India and Africa, Indonesia and Central Europe, including Germany, according to the study.

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Unveiling its Climate Strategy 2.0, the German Farmers鈥� Association (DBV) said climate change posed an enormous challenge for German farmers. 鈥淟ike no other economic sector, agriculture and forestry are directly affected, as extreme weather events in the past year have shown,鈥� the DBV said. "We are committed to our ambitious goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by 30 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 levels,鈥� said DBV environmental officer Eberhard Hartelt. The DBV has also set additional goals of further increasing the climate efficiency of agricultural production.

The efforts failed to impress environmental group Germanwatch, which said the measures would not effectively reduce greenhouse gases in agriculture. "The farmers' association is obviously looking above all for arguments to change nothing in industrialised agriculture and the increasingly export-oriented milk and meat production," said Germanwatch鈥檚 Tobias Reichert.

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Germany鈥檚 energy transition not only misses 2020 climate targets but fails on many other accounts too, according to the head of an expert commission tasked with monitoring the Energiewende鈥檚 progress. 鈥淓fficiency is a particular problem,鈥� economist Andreas L枚schel told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The development of the power grid remained below target, while power prices, electricity consumption, and emissions were too high, thus pushing the corresponding indicators 鈥渋n the red鈥�, said L枚schel. Only the renewables roll-out and power supply security remain on target.
The government appointed four independent energy and economics academics to assess the progress of the Energiewende in a yearly monitoring report. The latest report is overdue. It will likely be published once a new government is sworn in, the economy ministry told the 威力彩玩法.

For background, read the 威力彩玩法 article Experts call for CO2 price to retain Energiewende鈥檚 credibility, on the previous monitoring report published in December 2016.