Posted on 05/01/2019 2:49:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Germany, one of the world’s biggest consumers of coal, will shut down all 84 of its coal-fired power plants over the next 19 years to meet its international commitments in the fight against climate change, a government commission said Saturday.
The announcement marked a significant shift for Europe’s largest country — a nation that had long been a leader on cutting CO2 emissions before turning into a laggard in recent years and badly missing its reduction targets. Coal plants account for 40% of Germany’s electricity, itself a reduction from recent years when coal dominated power production.
“This is an historic accomplishment,” said Ronald Pofalla, chairman of the 28-member government commission, at a news conference in Berlin following a marathon 21-hour negotiating session that concluded at 6 a.m. Saturday. The breakthrough ended seven months of wrangling. “It was anything but a sure thing. But we did it,” Pofalla said. “There won’t be any more coal-burning plants in Germany by 2038.”
The plan includes some $45 billion in spending to mitigate the pain in coal regions. The commission’s recommendations are expected to be adopted by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government.
“It’s a big moment for climate policy in Germany that could make the country a leader once again in fighting climate change,” said Claudia Kemfert, professor for energy economics at the DIW Berlin, the German Institute for Economic Research. “It’s also an important signal for the world that Germany is again getting serious about climate change: a very big industrial nation that depends so much on coal is switching it off.”
The decision to quit coal follows an earlier bold energy policy move by the German government, which decided to shut down all of its nuclear power plants by 2022 in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster in 2011.
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Close coal close nuclear. They’re gonna freeze in the dark.
I think us automakers are going to have an advantage soon.
Good luck!
Have fun during the nice winters.
It’s gonna get awfully cold.
Blockheads. They either do things perfectly, or they screw it up in ways you can’t believe.
I guess Germany got tired of being defeated by other nations in the last century and have decided it's easier to simply defeat themselves.
Idiocy reaching heretofore unknown heights.
Just how many death wishes do the Germans need? Are they afraid that death by unchecked Islamic infestation won’t be enough?
what could go worng?
And that’s why those dumbasses lost two world wars.
I’ve driven the VW my wife used to drive, engineered in 1,001 ways to screw up in ways you couldn’t imagine.
Oh well, they won’t be buying our coal anyway (they produce their own), but they’ll buy our storage cells: renewable energy needs to be available when it’s not generated much.
For a supposed smart people, the Germans sure are making a bunch of idiotic moves. All in the name of the Al Gorean Church of Falsified Science.
Well CO2 will still blow in from other countries and don’t forget about all those breathing people and the soil ,OMG the soil ,D’oh
That’s not terribly bright.
They’ll soon change their minds
when the price of electricity
skyrockets and the
wicked winter winds of the
grand solar minimum
begin to blow.
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I call this fake news... 19-years is 7-years after the U.S. is destroyed by globull warming... AOC has clearly told us... So, if we are gone, the glorious 4th Reich will certainly be gone...
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