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Germany’s Green Ambitions Slip Further Behind Schedule
- National climate plan needed by EU may not be ready by July
- German climate plan hinges on fate of coal exit legislation
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Germany acknowledged that its effort to tighten its climate policy is slipping further behind schedule, adding to the risk that the European Union’s Green Deal is also delayed.
The government in Berlin said it’s set to miss by more than half a year the European Union’s deadline for submitting a plan for climate and energy policies covering the next decade. Officials are being held back by work on legislation to scrap coal as a power generation fuel and by administrative delays caused by the coronavirus outbreak.