Germans Face Leap in Green Power to Meet Higher EU Ambitions

(Bloomberg) -- Germany has to massively accelerate the greening of energy and transportation this decade in order to hit lower European Union emissions targets.

That’s the conclusion of environmental analysts at Agora Energiewende and the Climate Neutrality Foundation. The EU’s biggest economy and emitter of greenhouse gases will have to quicken the pace of new clean-power generation and drop carbon dioxide pollution by 65% in order to comply with new EU targets by 2030, wrote the researchers in a report published Thursday.

The research follows comments last week by Germany’s Environment Minister Svenja Schulze and her Division Head for Climate Policy Karsten Sach that the nation must brace for a revision of its clean power targets.

The commission wants to reduce the EU’s carbon dioxide output by at least 55% by 2030 compared with 1990 levels, up from the current plan of 40%. Germany was already expected to struggle to attain the green power goal of 65% from the current 43%.

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