Germany is failing to reach its climate goals
16 Mar 2023

In a press conference on 9 March the German Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck, presented his plan for accelerating the shift away from fossil fuel energy in a so-called “workshop report”.
Under the motto “Renewing prosperity and achieving climate-neutrality”, the minister praised the government’s course to accelerate the expansion of renewables as well as increasing the efforts of the population to reduce its energy consumption. Both industrial and private energy consumption had declined. Habeck did not mention, however, that CO2 emissions had fallen only very slightly and that the self-imposed ceiling had been missed.