perhaps the crucial meeting of the coal Commission have warned of the environmental associations prior to a Failure. It was not clear whether Friday or next week to reach agreement succeed, said FEDERAL chief Hubert Weiger on Thursday in Berlin. Martin Kaiser of Greenpeace said, a “notice of diplomacy” with distant objectives could not support it, there is A need for the Coal phase-out “in the defined – or two-year steps”. The President of the nature protection ring, DNR, Kai Niebert, said: “We will not leave the table.” You’ll only get up if the Commission were to fail, or the climate protection is critical taking.
What was previously agreed to provide compensation, subsidies, investment and relief in the draft of the final report, cost the taxpayers about € 52 billion, said Niebert. However, the consequences of climate change could be much more expensive. The government expenditure would only be justified if, in return, the climate protection.
FEDERAL chief Weiger stressed that the preservation of the hambach forest in North Rhine-Westphalia and the villages in open pit mining-close to be a Central concern. So far, this is the promise that is characterized in the draft Commission recommendation as moot. Greenpeace representatives, the Emperor said that they wanted to push this Friday to a compromise. The 1. February was, however, “the last appointment for us,” to find a solution.
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The three are members of the 28-member Commission on “growth, structural change and employment”, developed a concept for the Coal phase-out. At the end of two-thirds of the members must agree on the result. The goal is a broad social consensus for phasing out the production of Electricity from coal. (dpa)
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