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3 May 2021 10:48 GMT Updated  3 May 2021 11:00 GMT Environment minister Svenja Schulze and other members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing coalition said they plan to raise the ambition in Germany’s climate legislation, which is only possible with a large increase in the country’s renewable energy targets. The move comes after Germany’s constitutional court on Thursday ruled that Schulze’s 2019 climate law is inadequate as it violates the freedoms of younger generations by pushing the bulk of emission reductions needed under the Paris climate agreement post-2030. Also, t...

29 April 2021 15:09 GMT Updated  30 April 2021 7:48 GMT Germany’s constitutional court said a 2019 climate law is inadequate as it violates the freedoms of younger generations by pushing the bulk of emission reductions needed under the Paris climate agreement post-2030, in a boost to renewables and green campaigners. “A huge win for the climate movement!” tweeted Luisa Neubauer, one of the best-known activists from Germany’s Fridays for Future climate movement . “One year ago, we filed a case against the German government and its climate law. Today, the German constitutional c...

26 April 2021 Germany’s governing coalition has agreed higher renewable expansion goals for next year but failed to set longer-term targets for the years up to 2030. Parliamentarians from the Social Democrats and the conservative CDU–CSU union decided to increase solar PV capacities foreseen for auctions in 2022 three-fold, from 1.9 gigawatts (GW) to 6 GW. The tender volume for onshore wind capacity will be raised from 2.9 GW to 4 GW, energy minister Peter Altmaier announced at a press conference last Thursday. Altmaier called it a “brave” decision, which he said had been difficult to...

Germany’s planned solar auctions expansion ‘not sufficient’, trade bodies say The 187MW Weesow-Willmersdorf solar project was connected to the grid last year. Image: Sungrow. Germany’s renewable energy sector has said new government plans to more than triple the PV capacity included in next year’s auctions do not go far enough in supporting long-term solar deployment. The coalition government last week agreed to increase the 2022 PV tender volumes from 1.9GW to 6GW, while capacity for onshore wind will go up from 2.9GW to 4GW. With the one-off auctions set to take place after German...

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