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Germany will likely ‘miss its 2022 and 2023 climate targets’, Vice-Chancellor says
(EurActiv, 14 Jan 2022) Germany missed its climate target for 2021 and is likely to miss them again this year and next, according to Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck who said the country “must triple the pace of emission cuts” to reach its 2030 goals.
2021 was a bad year for Germany’s climate ambitions. Renewable electricity generation hit a two-year low due to exceptionally low winds and carbon emissions picked up again after a brief drop caused by COVID-19 restrictions.
As a consequence, the country missed its 2021 climate goals.
“We start with a drastic backlog,” admitted Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck as he presented Germany’s 2021 climate account in Berlin on Tuesday (11 January).
Under business-as-usual projections, Germany would achieve a mere 50% reduction in emissions by 2030, Habeck explained. “That would mean emitting 200 million tonnes of CO2 more” than the country’s target, he added.
“The climate protection measures taken to date are inadequate in all sectors,” he said, adding that Germany would likely “miss its 2022 and 2023 climate targets.”
In December, the “traffic light” coalition made up of the socialist SPD, the Greens and the liberal FDP party assumed office in Berlin following 16 years of conservative rule by Angela Merkel.
EurActiv, 14 Jan 2022: Germany will likely ‘miss its 2022 and 2023 climate targets’, Vice-Chancellor says
