Germany needs reforms aimed at the transition to renewable energy sources, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said during a visit to the Siemens Gamesa plant.
According to him, completing the reforms this year is necessary to achieve the set climate goals.
“I am fully convinced that we will be able to talk about success only when we do not allow ourselves to be intimidated when the government led by me in the first year can make all the necessary decisions to promote renewable energy,” Reuters reports Scholz.
The government of the country has a clear goal – to achieve all climate goals and thereby reduce greenhouse gas emissions. By 2030, they should be reduced by 65 percent compared to 1990.
And by the middle of the century, Germany was completely committed to becoming climate neutral, writes DW. Such a status suggests that exactly as much gases are emitted on the territory of the country as nature can absorb them.
In Germany, the conditions and terms of climate, or in other words, carbon neutrality, are even tougher than in other European countries.
To meet EU requirements for a climate-neutral German territory, coal and oil must be abandoned in favor of renewable energy sources. However, everything did not go according to plan due to Russian counter-sanctions.
Nord Stream pipeline delivery has been reduced by up to 20 percent, forcing the country’s government to restart old coal-fired power plants. All of this is pushing back the timeline for achieving climate neutrality. To keep up with the schedule, the German authorities need more effective and radical measures.
Olaf Scholz made his statement in Cuxhaven, one of the cities in the province of Lower Saxony. This is his first visit there in the status of chancellor.
According to the local publication CNV Medien, the politician’s trip developed quickly. One of the main points on the route was the Siemens Gamesa enterprise and one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wind turbines.