Study – Germany will likely miss 2020 climate target
Last year’s increase in CO2 emissions makes it increasingly unlikely that Germany will reach its 2020 climate target, according to a short analysis by Arepo Consult for the Green Party. Emissions would have to drop by 40 million tonnes per year until 2020, whereas one year ago a yearly drop of 30 million tonnes would have been sufficient.
The consultancy estimates that emissions rose from 902 million to 906 million tonnes in 2016. It argues that structural change in the power sector, more support for efficiency, and an energy transition in the transport sector are urgently necessary to make rapid progress on emissions. Spiegel Online ran a long article on the study entitled “Good bye climate target”.
Find the study in German here.
Read the Green Party press release in German here.
Read the Spiegel Online article in German here.
For background on last year’s emission increase, read the CLEW article Little headway in 2016 for Germany’s energy transition and find the latest data by energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB) in the news digest item Energy consumption again increases slightly.