{"id":23133,"date":"2020-10-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kyotoclub.org\/?p=23133"},"modified":"2020-10-07T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:00:00","slug":"eu-climate-target-of-55-would-mean-near-exit-from-coal-in-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kyotoclub.org\/en\/news-en\/news-from-the-world\/2020\/10\/07\/eu-climate-target-of-55-would-mean-near-exit-from-coal-in-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"EU climate target of -55% would mean near-exit from coal in 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stepping up <strong>the 2030 EU climate target to an emission reduction <\/strong>of at least 55 percent as proposed by the <strong>European Commission<\/strong> would very likely require the bloc to phase out coal almost entirely by that date, according to experts. The move, which is backed by current EU Council presidency Germany, would also have far-reaching consequences for Germany&#39;s coal exit plans, the experts told Clean Energy Wire. The country would have to effectively bring forward its phaseout of the climate-damaging fossil fuel, currently scheduled for 2038 at the latest.<\/p>\n<p>This target would&nbsp;imply that countries like Germany will likely have to pull forward current plans for exiting the emission-intensive fuel. Germany, which&nbsp;<a data-title=\"Merkel wants to rally EU member states behind 55% climate target\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cleanenergywire.org\/news\/merkel-wants-rally-eu-member-states-behind-55-climate-target\" target=\"_blank\">officially backed<\/a>&nbsp;the more ambitious target this week, currently plans to phase out coal by 2038 at the latest. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eceee.org\/all-news\/news\/news-2020\/eu-climate-target-of-55-would-mean-near-exit-from-coal-in-2030-experts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleanenergywire.org\/news\/eu-climate-target-55-would-mean-near-exit-coal-2030-experts\" target=\"_blank\">&quot;EU climate target of -55% would mean near-exit from coal in 2030 &ndash; experts&quot;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU Commission proposal to step up climate ambitions and aim for an emissions cut of at least 55 percent by 2030 would imply that the bloc must almost entirely phase out coal by that date, experts say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kc_post_selected_socio_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-23133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-world","tag-news-progetto-eln"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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