“Signal for Gabriel”
Frankfurter Rundschau
Service sector trade union ver.di’s has said that a fair coal exit in Germany is possible and can be financed, a statement that could alter the course of the current discussion among Social Democrats, writes Frank-Thomas Wenzel in an opinion piece in Frankfurter Rundschau. Economy minister Sigmar Gabriel, a Social Democrat, has so far opposed settting a deadline for a coal exit, fearing large losses in next year’s national and state elections “if a coal exit with job losses becomes a campaign topic,” writes Wenzel.
Read the CLEW article Ministry avoids concrete targets in weakened Climate Action Plan and the CLEW factsheet Germany’s trimmed-down Climate Action Plan for background.
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