BERLIN, June 14 (Reuters) – Germany’s economy ministry has forwarded a climate protection bill to other ministries for approval, a piece of legislation that follows months of wrangling over the phasing out of oil and gas heating systems and which resulted in an agreement earlier this week.
Germany, Europe’s largest economy and industrial engine, is implementing a series of measures to achieve climate neutrality by 2045. Berlin is developing its renewable energy sector and has launched an affordable train ticket that can be used across the country as well as a new road toll for trucks.
“The new climate protection program brings together the coalition’s efforts to achieve national and European climate protection targets,” Economy Minister Robert Habeck said in a statement released on Wednesday.
“The goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 65% by 2030 is within reach,” he said.
Among other things, the bill provides that the evolution of emissions will be monitored in a multi-year framework, and no longer only from one year to the next, in order to reduce one-off effects and increase transparency, the ministry said. (Report by Madeline Chambers and Miranda Murray; French version Victor Goury-Laffont)
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