Germany’s Dubious Green Leadership

Germany’s Dubious Green Leadership

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande staked out their countries’ claim to global green leadership today with a joint statement pledging to phase out fossil fuels and “decarbonise” the global economy by the end of the century. But while Berlin may believe itself a paragon of environmental virtue, its growing hunger for a particularly dirty variety of coal called lignite (a direct result of the country’s “green” energy transition, called the energiewende) says otherwise.

http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/05/19/germanys-dubious-green-leadership/