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Germany's climate protection to cost 40 billion euros by 2023

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Reuters
15 September, 2019, 10:15 am
Last modified: 15 September, 2019, 10:24 am

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Germany's climate protection to cost 40 billion euros by 2023

German government to unveil its climate protection package on Sep 20, that would include some sort of carbon emissions pricing to finance measures aimed at reducing emissions

Reuters
15 September, 2019, 10:15 am
Last modified: 15 September, 2019, 10:24 am
An exhaust pipe of a car is pictured on a street in a Berlin, Germany, February 22, 2018/ Reuters
An exhaust pipe of a car is pictured on a street in a Berlin, Germany, February 22, 2018/ Reuters

Climate protection measures that Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and their Social Democrat coalition partners want to unveil next week will cost at least 40 billion euros (35.42 billion pounds) until 2023, a person briefed on the talks told Reuters on Saturday.

"We agree that something needs to be done but it is still open which form this will take," said the source briefed on the talks, which ended late on Friday. "We still have not agreed on a price for a tonne of C02."

The government wants to unveil its climate protection package on Sept. 20 and Merkel has said the plans would include some sort of carbon emissions pricing to finance measures aimed at reducing emissions.

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The coalition partners, which include Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), their Bavaria Christian Social Union (CSU) sister party and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) are divided on how to finance Germany's march toward a green future.

Merkel's conservatives have been cast as more eager to ensure that the burden of financing the measures doesn't hurt German industry. The SPD want to protect small earners.

Merkel touched on those dilemmas facing her ministers in her weekly podcast.

"On the one hand we want climate protections measures to be effective to meet our commitments," she said. "On the other hand we want to be economically sensible and act in a socially acceptable way so that all people can afford climate protection."

The plans are expected to touch on a broad range of issues such as extending grants for electric car buyers, expanding a network of charging stations, raising road taxes for polluting vehicles, improving heating systems for buildings and raising a green surcharge for plane tickets.

The coalition partners will meet again on Thursday to resolve their difference before the plans are unveiled the next day.

One of Germany's main goals is to double the share of its power from renewable sources to 65% by 2030. It also wants to shut down all coal-powered power stations by 2038, which will require it to spend at least 40 billion euros on mining regions to help them weather the shift.

climate change / Carbon emission / Germany

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