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Germany to miss 2030 climate goal: experts (www.dw.com)

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Germany wants to be climate neutral by 2045. But a panel of government climate advisers says it's already in danger of missing a key target to cut planet-heating emissions by the end of the decade.

Germany's climate advisory body has called for new policy measures to slash greenhouse gas emissions, warning that the country looks set to miss its 2030 climate change targets.

In a report published on Monday, the Council of Experts on Climate Change said Germany was unlikely to reach its goal of cutting 65% of emissions by the end of the decade compared to 1990 levels.

The panel, which is appointed by the government and has independent authority to assess the country's climate performance, said sectors such as transport and construction in particular were struggling to decarbonize.

The findings contradict statements from German Climate Protection Minister and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who said in March that projections from the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) showed emissions were falling and Germany would meet its goal.

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[–] tmjaea 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Phasing out nuclear was a decade long process, no last minute decision that could have been reverted, at least not in an (price-) efficient manner

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The fact that they had 10+ years to revert the decision and didn't is that much more damning.

I would know, my country (Belgium) did the same. I will forever hold a grudge against those reality-denying environmentalists who recklessly misrepresented the drawbacks of nuclear to the public and killed any dream of energy independence well before I was old enough to vote.

You were the chosen ones, Greens. You were supposed to fight the oil lobby, not join them.

[–] baru 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would know, my country (Belgium) did the same

Didn't various of your nuclear reactors need huge maintenance? As nuclear reactors get older the maintenance cost get crazy high. I remember seeing reports that said electrical grid problems could likely happen due to the age.

Though it seems you mean more nuclear had to be built a few decades ago? That likely would be good at that time.

But in this age, nuclear is costly if built now. Resulting in high electricity prices. That'll make a country uncompetitive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Greenfield (new) nuclear's LCOE is higher than renewables. This does not account for the additional GHG emissions from the fossil fuels that supplement renewables' intermittency issues, and if we put a carbon tax on those then the maths would surely change (whether it justifies greenfield nuclear over things like energy storage or just paying the carbon tax I do not know, I haven't seen a study on that).
Existing nuclear is cost-competitive with renewables. Yes, as with any 50 year-old infrastructure it will require maintenance. Refurbishing is still cheaper than shutting everything down and replacing that capacity with gas+renewables. The decision to shut down existing NPPs was political; so political in fact that the government had to put the nuclear shutdown into law (otherwise the energy operator would have done the economically sensible thing and refurbished the NPPs for an additional 10-30 years.
Since the energy crisis we are planning to refurbish the NPPs that were shut down anyways. Of course the cost analysis is much murkier now that we have years of delayed maintenance to catch up on since the operator expected a complete phaseout in 2022.

The debate over new nuclear is one thing. It's not happening in Belgium anyways as literally no political party supports that. But shutting down existing nuclear is a moronic strategy that was only undertaken due to intense lobbying from anti-nuclear (and therefore pro-oil, whether they realize it or not) activists that cannot even remotely pretend that in the early '00s they correctly predicted that existing-nuclear-vs-new-renewables would reach a rough economic equilibrium twenty years later. They were killing the planet and they knew it, and didn't care because it meant less nuclear (whatever relative intrinsic benefits that supposedly entails from an environmental perspective).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ahh, the good ol' sunk cost fallacy.