Scholz: Germany Won’t Delay Path to Climate Neutrality by 2045
Olaf Scholz speaks at the SPD Debate Convention in Berlin, Germany, on Nov. 5.
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Days before a conference on climate change in Egypt, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Europe’s biggest economy won’t stray from its path of becoming carbon neutral by 2045, even as cuts in Russian natural gas force it to rely more on coal and oil for now.
“We will not slacken our efforts to push ahead with what we’ve planned for our economy, that we truly want to achieve that Germany, as the 4th largest industrial country in the world, becomes CO2 neutral by 2045,” Scholz said at an event organized by his Social Democratic Party. “We’re not going to postpone that now, rather, we have to invest billions now to produce in a CO2-neutral way.”