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Germany calls on governments to set target for renewable energy ahead of COP28
Wind turbines turn behind a solar farm in Rapshagen, Germany, October 28, 2021

GERMANY has called for governments around the world to work on setting an ambitious target for renewable energy that would “ring in the end of the fossil fuel age.”

Speaking at the start of a two-day meeting in Berlin today, attended by dozens of top climate envoys, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock noted that the world needs to sharply cut greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit global warming to 1.5°C.

“But we also know that not all countries are prepared to do so,” she said. “That is why I want to open the debate (…) on whether we should and can reach a target on renewables at the next climate conference.”

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