CDU will not agree to minimum CO₂ price after elections – CDU parl group energy spokesman
Montel
Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) would not agree to a minimum CO₂ price as part of a coalition deal following September’s national election, according to the energy policy spokesman of the CDU parliamentary group Joachim Pfeiffer, Nathan Witkop reports for Montel. Emissions trade was an instrument to control the amount of emissions, not the prices, Pfeiffer told Montel.
Read a short version of the article in German here.
For background on reform proposals in Germany, including CO₂-related proposals, read the CLEW factsheet Germany ponders how to finance renewables expansion in the future.
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