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24 Jun 2019, 13:56
Benjamin Wehrmann

Wind industry urges Germany鈥檚 government to stand firm regarding 2050 climate-neutrality

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The German Wind Energy Association (BWE) has called on the government to stand by the aim of achieving net-zero emissions across Europe by 2050 and urged concrete measures to reduce emissions. 鈥淒ecarbonisation will happen. The German government must not backtrack on its announcement,鈥 BWE head Hermann Albers said. With a view to the recent EU Council session, at which the bloc鈥檚 28 members did not officially agree on climate neutrality by 2050, Albers said the setback should by no means be seen as a failure. 鈥淎lmost all EU states are in favour of achieving a greenhouse gas-neutral EU by 2050,鈥 Albers said. He added that a CO2 price could help trigger transformation in the heating and transport sectors and argued that wind power would be indispensable for providing the renewable energy needed to achieve this goal. 鈥淭he blockade of onshore wind power expansion has to be removed,鈥 Albers said, calling for the quicker issuing of construction licenses and faster repowering measures to replace old wind turbine models with newer and more efficient ones.

罢丑别听European Council鈥檚 inability to agree聽on the tight 2050 climate target has thwarted ambitions by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to enhance the profile of her country as well as that of the EU as an international leader in climate action. At the same time, energy industry representatives have called on the government to act on its own climate targets, urging a聽massive expansion聽of renewable energy sources to achieve its goal of a 65 percent renewables share in power consumption by 2030.

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