Angela Merkel – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Wed, 27 May 2020 13:41:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Merkel and Macron Say They Want a Game-Changing Green Recovery in Europe https://energytransition.org/2020/05/merkel-and-macron-say-they-want-a-game-changing-green-recovery-in-europe/ https://energytransition.org/2020/05/merkel-and-macron-say-they-want-a-game-changing-green-recovery-in-europe/#respond Wed, 27 May 2020 13:00:57 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=22379 But there’s fight-back from the old guard – in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own party – as well as from Europe’s so-called ‘frugal four’: Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark. Nevertheless, Merkel is going further than ever before in backing the European Green Deal, higher EU climate targets, and renewable energy across Europe. Paul Hockenos has the story. Merkel and Macron support the...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/05/merkel-and-macron-say-they-want-a-game-changing-green-recovery-in-europe/feed/ 0 Irrational thinking: Merkel’s government stunningly green-lights new coal-fired power plant https://energytransition.org/2019/12/irrational-thinking-merkels-government-stunningly-green-lights-new-coal-fired-power-plant/ https://energytransition.org/2019/12/irrational-thinking-merkels-government-stunningly-green-lights-new-coal-fired-power-plant/#respond Thu, 26 Dec 2019 14:00:51 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=21471 Despite all their rhetoric, Angela Merkel’s Grand Coalition government is clearly not all that interested in really powering past coal. The latest evidence is its decision to allow the Uniper-owned 1,200 MW hard coal-fired power plant, Datteln 4, to come online in 2020 — against the recommendations of the Coal Commission. As the government embarks on a bizarre sales campaign peddling the idea that...

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