Berlin approves this Friday an “important” plan against climate change

The German government aims on Friday to achieve something “important and big” by approving a package of measures that manages to reduce the country’s _CO2 emissions by 55% compared to 1990 by 2030.

The plan, which according to some media could amount to 40,000 million euros (44,199 million dollars), is still being negotiated within the grand coalition of conservatives and social democrats that governs in Germany, exhausting the deadlines despite the fact that the appointment was announced six months ago.

“We hope to achieve something big and important,” said on Monday in an ordinary meeting with journalists the spokesman of the German Executive, Steffen Seibert, who avoided advancing the measures or major axes of the project.

Seibert pointed out that the plan demonstrates the “absolute will” of the Executive to achieve the objectives for 2030 (especially after Berlin has already recognized that it will not achieve those of 2020, which stipulated a 40% reduction in _CO2 emissions).

The spokesman also stressed that with this package the government aims to promote technological innovation in the country and that the changes for a progressive reduction of emissions of polluting gases are “socially acceptable”, in reference to the assumption of costs.

The presentation of the plan coincides with the first global general strike called by the student environmental movement “Fridays for future” to raise awareness about the problem of the climate crisis.

The newspaper “Welt am Sonntag” said on Sunday that the program will amount to 40,000 million euros (44,199 million dollars), to be disbursed in the next four years, after the grand coalition had agreed on the fundamentals of the package.

According to this media, the plan includes everything from aid for the development and purchase of the electric car to subsidies for the modernization of the most polluting heating systems, including the promotion of hydrogen production.

The most controversial measure within the coalition is the establishment of a _CO2 emissions market, an issue that still seems to be open, according to German media. The Social Democrats initially demanded a tax on emissions, something the Conservatives oppose.

Source: The Vanguard