After delays, threat of legal action, and defense of the German auto industry, Berlin will accept the European Commission’s demand for a cut in CO² emissions
By Honor Mahony
Germany has backed down from a high-profile fight with Brussels over proposed cuts to its greenhouse gas emissions.
Environment minister Sigmar Gabriel said Berlin would accept the European Commission’s demands for a cut in carbon dixoide emissions between 2008 and 2011, according to German daily die Tageszeitung.
“Germany has another basis for its calculations but in the end we are only 2 percent apart,” said the minister adding “We will accept this; to make clear also that we stand behind European emissions trading,”
The commission had asked Germany, as the biggest carbon dioxide producer in Europe, to reduce its emissions limit to 453 metric tonnes, far less than the 482 limit Berlin had originally proposed.
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