This emerges from a draft for the final declaration of the G7 meeting. The energy, climate and environment ministers are still meeting in Berlin until today, Friday, the draft is available to the Reuters news agency. The formulation of an end for “climate-damaging” coal-fired power plants means that plants that separate the CO2 should continue to run.
For the Greens in the German traffic light coalition (Climate Minister: Robert Habeck) such a commitment would be a tailwind: the coalition agreement stipulates that the coal phase-out should ideally succeed in 2030 and not only in 2038.
Resistance is to be expected above all from the USA and Japan, for them the wording goes too far. The passage that the entire electricity sector should no longer emit any greenhouse gases by 2035 is unlikely to meet with their approval either.
Source: Nachrichten
