News Digest Item
25 Aug 2017

“Germans expect plan for coal exit from next government”

Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) / Kantar Emnid

72 percent of Germans say that the next government should decide on a timetable for the country’s coal exit, according to a representative survey by Kantar Emnid, commissioned by Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). 59 percent of respondents said that German coal-fired power plants should be decommissioned “soon”. BUND head Hubert Weiger said this showed that Germans “expect the federal government to act on a coal exit. A large number of coal-fired power plants must be shut down within the coming two to three years.”

Find the press release in German and the survey results in German .

See the 淨 factsheet When will Germany finally ditch coal? for more information.

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