07 Jul 2016

“Headwind for new course”

taz – die tageszeitung

Germany’s northern most state Schleswig-Holstein will be the ninth of 16 states to have a climate protection law, taz reports. The state cabinet passed the draft law on Wednesday, now parliament has to approve it. Targets established in the law are doubling the production of renewable electricity from 18 terawatt-hours (TWh) annually to 37 TWh in 2025. By 2030 the state wants to produce 44 TWh from renewable sources. It already covers more than 100 percent of its power consumption from renewables, the article says. 22 percent of heating energy are to come from renewables by 2025 – in 2014 the share was at 13.5 percent. By 2040, greenhouse gas emissions shall be reduced by 70 percent compared to 1990 emissions, the draft law states.

Read the article in German here.

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