(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, NOV 30 - The German government on
Thursday lost a key climate case brought by environmental
groups, in an embarrassing slap down the day before Chancellor
Olaf Scholz was due to travel to the COP28 climate summit. A
Berlin court ordered the government to adopt an "immediate
action programme" after failing to meet its own climate goals in
the transport and building sectors. The case brought by the
Deutsche Umwelthilfe and BUND environmentalist groups had
accused the government of not doing enough to get back on track
after missing emissions targets for transport and building in
2021 and 2022. In 2021, the transport sector overshot its CO2
emissions target by 3.1 million tonnes, according to BUND. In
the building sector, the equivalent figure was 2.5 million
tonnes. (ANSA-AFP).
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