{"id":193521,"date":"2022-06-21T00:16:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T18:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=193521"},"modified":"2022-06-21T00:16:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T18:46:04","slug":"germany-sticks-to-2030-coal-exit-target-amid-energy-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/germany-sticks-to-2030-coal-exit-target-amid-energy-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany sticks to 2030 coal exit target amid energy worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BERLIN, 20 Jun: The German government said Monday that it remains committed to its goal of phasing out coal as a power source by 2030, despite deepening worries about a cut in Russia\u2019s gas supplies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\u2019s Gazprom announced last week that it was sharply reducing supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany for what it said were technical reasons. The German government says the move appears to be politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday, Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that Germany will try to compensate for the move by allowing increased burning of coal, a more polluting fossil fuel. Habeck, a member of the Green party, said the move was \u201cbitter\u201d but \u201csimply necessary\u201d to lower gas usage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s three-party government committed itself to completing the phaseout of coal \u201cideally\u201d by 2030 in its coalition agreement late last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked Monday to what extent that is now in doubt, a spokesman for Habeck\u2019s ministry said that \u201cthe coal exit in 2030 isn\u2019t wobbling at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is more important than ever that it happens in 2030 \u2014 that is our view,\u201d spokesman Stephan Gabriel Haufe told reporters in Berlin. (AP)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, 20 Jun: The German government said Monday that it remains committed to its goal of phasing out coal as a power source by 2030, despite deepening worries about a cut in Russia\u2019s gas supplies. Russia\u2019s Gazprom announced last week that it was sharply reducing supplies through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-193521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}