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GERMANY OKAYS CLIMATE LAW FOR CLIMATE NEUTRALITY BY 2045
- By The Financial District
- Jul 1, 2021
- 1 min read
Germany's Bundestag passed the country's new climate protection law on Thursday, introducing tougher regulations and setting the goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2045, five years earlier than initially planned.
The law was passed by 352 in favor, 290 against and 10 abstentions, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) reported on June 25, 2021.
"We want to live in a carbon-neutral way in 2045, we want to have a carbon-neutral economy and we want to be mobile," German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze said during the debate. The top priorities must be the expansion of renewable energies and the modernization of infrastructure, she said.
The new legislation also established five-year targets on the path to climate neutrality. Germany must now reduce its carbon emissions by at least 65 percent by 2030, compared to 1990, and by 88 percent by 2040.
The legislation is the government's response to an unprecedented court ruling at the end of April that demanded that Germany share the burden of reducing emissions between the older and younger generations. The Constitutional Court ruled that the country's climate protection laws were not extensive enough.
