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Matt Burgess: How Germany s dangerous precedent on climate could impact NZ
7 May, 2021 05:30 AM
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Transformation is an expensive way to cut emissions, more costly and less effective than international offsets, emissions pricing, forestry, and other technologies. Photo / 123RF
Transformation is an expensive way to cut emissions, more costly and less effective than international offsets, emissions pricing, forestry, and other technologies. Photo / 123RF
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OPINION:
What is it about climate change that turns august institutions into the intellectual equals of quivering jellyfish? Last week, Germany s highest court upheld a constitutional complaint against the Federal Government on climate change. This
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Lockdown rules could soon be relaxed after the Covid-19 incidence rate fell below the crucial 100 case threshold. Photo: IMAGO / A. Friedrichs
Friday, May 7
On Friday there were 596 new Covid-19 infections reported in Berlin. The seven-day incidence currently stands at 98.6 cases per 100,000 people
Covid-19 incidence rate falls below 100
On Thursday Berlinâs Covid-19 incidence dropped below the crucial threshold of 100 cases per 100,000 people, paving the way for a less stringent lockdown. The seven-day average incidence rate currently stands at 98.6, while the R-value has fallen to 0.7. If the seven-day incidence remains below 100 for five consecutive days, current âemergency brakeâ rules â including the 10pm curfew and strict limits on gatherings â will fall away. Additionally, the Senat signalled this week that restaurants could reopen to outdoor diners if the decrease in the case rate continues.
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HE “EIGHT arseholes in Karlsruhe”, otherwise known as Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court, have been perennial irritants for politicians, as this outburst from an irate minister in the 1970s suggests. Yet on April 29th, when the court’s first senate declared Germany’s climate-change law partly unconstitutional, ministers in the ruling coalition fell over themselves to hail the judges’ wisdom in rejecting an act they had passed less than 18 months earlier. The judgment was “epoch-making”, said Peter Altmaier, the Christian Democrat economy minister. “This is a very special day,” added Olaf Scholz, the Social Democrat finance minister. The pair then bickered over which of them was to blame for the terrible law in the first place.