Carbon Dioxide Reduction Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 09 Sep 2017 21:36:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Germany Far Behind Its 2020 Climate Target https://www.greenoptimistic.com/germany-far-behind-2020-climate-target-20170909/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/germany-far-behind-2020-climate-target-20170909/#respond Sat, 09 Sep 2017 21:36:21 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=64213 It was already disclosed by the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel that Germany will be five percent behind its 2020 climate goal of forty-percent reduction in carbon dioxide emission. However, a study conducted by Agora Energiewende forecasts that the deviation will actually be larger than the previous estimate. Instead of five percent, Germany is lagging […]

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