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Schwerin (dpa) - Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD) has reiterated her demand to reduce CO2 emissions in Germany by 65 percent by 2030 compared to 1990.
After the tightening of the EU's climate target, it was clear that the German contribution could no longer be at least 55 percent, as was previously the case, said Schulze at the end of the federal state environment ministers' conference on Friday.
The expert commission expects something between 62 and 68 percent.
"It will all move on this scale," she said.
The European Union finally agreed on its climate target for 2030 on Wednesday: by then, EU emissions should be at least 55 percent below the 1990 level.
So far, the target has been minus 40 percent.
The environment ministers of the federal states also called on the federal government to tighten the climate protection target for 2030.
A corresponding application from Schleswig-Holstein, Hesse and Thuringia was accepted on Friday at the online environment ministers' conference chaired by Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, as Schleswig-Holstein's head of department Jan Philipp Albrecht (Greens) announced.
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Schulze said: “I agree with the federal states that the higher EU climate target must lead to more renewable energies in our country than previously planned.
We have to get faster in expanding wind and solar energy this decade. "
More wind and solar power are required for electric cars, heat pumps or the production of green hydrogen for industry.
The coalition in Berlin agreed on Thursday that there should be additional tendering volumes of 1.1 gigawatts for onshore wind energy and 4.1 gigawatts for photovoltaics in 2022.
In addition, approval procedures in the Federal Immission Control Act are to be made easier.
This is an important step, said Schulze on Friday.
"But this must be followed by a significantly increased expansion path for the rest of the decade," she demanded.
Its goal is for Germany to be supplied entirely from renewable energies from 2040 onwards.
"A lot more has to happen now."
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