News Digest Item
09 Oct 2018

Germany alone with no-nuclear policy – article

Politico

Germany’s decision to phase-out nuclear power and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the same time is posing difficulties for the country, which will miss its 2020 CO2 reduction targets, Paola Tamma writes on Politico. Both the IPCC’s new 1.5 degree report and other European countries such as France, Belgium and Sweden are including nuclear power as a low-carbon technology in future energy supply, the article says.

Read the article in English here.

For background, read the CLEW dossier The challenges of Germany’s nuclear phase-out.

All texts created by the Clean Energy Wire are available under a “Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0)” . They can be copied, shared and made publicly accessible by users so long as they give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

Journalism for the energy transition

Get our Newsletter
Join our Network
Find an interviewee