Germany adopted a new greenhouse gas emission reduction bill

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German upper house of parliament last week finally passed the new greenhouse gas emission reduction bill, doubling its commitment to renewable energy, change electricity production to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel took office since 2005 has been the issue of climate change as itsOVEN domestic and foreign affairs, one of the cornerstones of the policy, but she also from industrial areas in particular, the automobile industry pressure, they are opposed to a new car costs and carbon dioxide emissions The number of links.

“The auto industry is very powerful lobbying force,” and the SPD’s federal environmental experts赫尔曼谢尔(HermannScheer) said, “but large-scale energy-intensive companies are strongly asking them to prevent the adoption of changes in energy use means the bill.”

The Federal Parliament passed a bill proposed to include the substantial increase in wind and solar energy, renewable energy use, its share from the current 14 percent to 20 percent of 2020.

Germany’s wind power production of wind power accounted for 4.4%, this proportion in Denmark and
electric oven Spain ranked in the world after the third, and renewable energy accounted for Germany’s energy supply based on six percent.

At the same time, the new bill requires, the direct use of resources and power derived from geothermal energy as a joint production of energy utilization will increase to 25 per cent. In Germany and Eastern Europe, is a joint production of energy use and effective system, the redundant power stations will be converted to heat energy, rather than directly discharged into the atmosphere.

Germany to the 2020 greenhouse gas emissions in 1990 on the basis of reduction of 40%
steam oven, last year the EU 27 member countries adopted a minimum of 2 times the emission reduction targets, the bill is adopted by the German overall goal of reducing emissions in two phases The first step.

The second phase of the parliament a package of environmental bills this year will be adopted after the summer recess period, which will focus on the goal of reducing domestic electricity consumption, from 2009, all of Germany’s new construction and must meet stringent energy efficiency standards.

Although Germany and the European Union developed a number of measures, but the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions targets and the requirements of the Group of Eight was still WWF and the international financial services companyffxi gil Allianz Group questioned. The two agencies this year, the G-8 summit held before the release of a report that “eight major industrialized countries have not taken effective measures to complete the objectives of the global warming trend to be in control within 2 degrees Celsius.”

The report also said that although Germany in renewable energy use commendable performance, but in the coal energy industry has not made any decisions.

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