Bloomberg.com: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government expects to cut greenhouse-gas emissions from transportation by a quarter by 2030 as it boosts the number of electric cars on the road.
The administration expects emissions to drop 26 percent by 2030 from 1990 levels, it said in a reply to questions from the opposition Green Party. Germany has set a goal of having 1 million electric vehicles by 2020, from about 21,324 at the start of this year, it said.
The government “welcomes the decoupling between growing transport service and markedly declining emissions,” it said.
Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, this year said it needs to take additional measures to avoid missing a goal of cutting carbon emissions 40 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels. Transport, which accounts for about 16 percent of the country’s emissions, produced about 140 million metric tons of CO2 in 2012, from about 161 million tons in 2001, it said.
The administration expects emissions to drop 26 percent by 2030 from 1990 levels, it said in a reply to questions from the opposition Green Party. Germany has set a goal of having 1 million electric vehicles by 2020, from about 21,324 at the start of this year, it said.
The government “welcomes the decoupling between growing transport service and markedly declining emissions,” it said.
Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, this year said it needs to take additional measures to avoid missing a goal of cutting carbon emissions 40 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels. Transport, which accounts for about 16 percent of the country’s emissions, produced about 140 million metric tons of CO2 in 2012, from about 161 million tons in 2001, it said.
