āI suppose we won't quite reach our goalā
Germany is likely to miss its 2020 target of reducing COā emissions by 40 percent compared to 1990, environment minister Barbara Hendricks said in an interview with the national radio station Deutschlandfunk. āI suppose we won't quite reach our goalā and āend up a bit below itā Hendricks said. She added that she was responsible for initiating the 2014 Action Programme for climate protection āto come as close as possible to that goal,ā whereas her predecessors were also aware that Germany was likely to fall short but did not act.
In October Hendricksā ministry revealed that the governmentās 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target would probably be missed if no decisive steps were taken.
Read a transcript of the interview in German .
See an overview of Germanyās emission reduction targets in the Āé¶¹ĪŽĀė°ę factsheet Germanyās greenhouse gas emissions and climate targets.