Merkel makes āhuge mistakeā regarding coal exit ā Green Party co-head
Deutschlandfunk
German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a āhuge mistakeā when she argues that the question of ending coal-fired power generation should only be dealt with after ensuring the economic future of the affected workers, Green Party co-head Annalena Baerbock told Barbara Schmidt-Mattern in an interview for Deutschlandfunk. The climate crisis does not wait and āwe intensify [it] with every tonne of COā we emit,ā said Baerbock. Germany needs to quickly take coal-fired power plants off the grid, she said.
Find the interview in German .
For background, read Ā鶹ĪŽĀė°ęās āCommission watch ā Managing Germanyās coal phase-outā and the factsheet Germanyās coal exit commission.
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