47 NGOs call on coalition negotiators to commit to 2020 climate goal
NGOs / Tagesspiegel
In a letter addressed to Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leading negotiators in the ongoing government coalition talks between the CDU/CSU and the SPD, several German NGOs, including BUND, WWF, and NABU, call for a clear commitment to the 2020 climate target in the future coalition treaty, reports Jens Tartler in the Tagesspiegel. Inaction generates “big economic costs and hinders the climate-friendly modernisation” of the German economy, the NGOs write.
Read the article in German here.
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