āWWF: NRW burns more lignite than the entire USAā
The new governing coalition of conservative CDU and economic liberal FDP in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is set to undermine the countryās climate protection goals, environmental organisation WWF says in a press release. The CDU-FDP coalition agreement āruns counter to the federal governmentās climate goalsā, particularly in the fields of coal-fired power production and wind power generation, WWF says. One third of Germanyās CO2 emissions came from heavy-industry heartland NRW. The new government seemed intent on āa rollbackā of the Energiewende by avoiding any decrease of coal-fired power production and severely limiting the area available for wind power expansion.
WWF Germanyās Michael SchƤfer told newspaper Rheinische Post that āNRW alone burns more lignite than the entire USAā.
Read the press release in German and the article in Rheinische Post in German .
For background, see the Āé¶¹ĪŽĀė°ę factsheet The German state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia.