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EU-COURT/GERMANY-CLIMATE:Germany "persistently" broke air pollution rules, EU top court rules

The German government plans to speed up the expansion of wind and solar energy by 2030 as part of its climate protection programme, a draft law seen by Reuters showed on Wednesday.

In climate push, G7 agrees to stop international funding for coal 05/21/2021 | 01:01pm EDT Send by mail : Message : Required fields BERLIN/LONDON (Reuters) - The world's seven largest advanced economies agreed on Friday to stop international financing of coal projects that emit carbon by the end of this year, and phase out such support for all fossil fuels, to meet globally agreed climate change targets. Stopping fossil fuel funding is seen as a major step the world can make to limit the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times, which scientists say wo...

Factbox: German government agrees on tougher climate targets Reuters 2 hrs ago © Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay The lignite power plants of "Neurath New", Niederaussem, and "Neurath Old" of German energy supplier and utility RWE are pictured in Neurath FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The German cabinet agreed on Wednesday on tighter sector targets for carbon emission curbs which implies bringing forward an exit date for ending coal generation, currently set at 2038. A new law, which could trigger 8 billion euros ($9.70 billion) of additional climate protection spending in the 2022 budget and measures ...

(Adds details, background) BERLIN, May 12 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved on Wednesday draft legislation for more ambitious CO2 reduction targets after a landmark ruling last month from the country's top court, a government source said. Under the new plans, which come as the environmentalist Greens top most polls before a federal election in September, Germany will cut its carbon emissions by 65% by 2030 from 1990 levels, up from a previous target of a 55% reduction. Europe's biggest economy will also aim for nearly net zero emissions by 2045, five years earlier...