News Headline
Climate change and biodiversity most pressing issues – German environment ministry report
Source
Clean Energy Wire
Publication Date
2019-09-19
In its 2019 environmental report, the German environment ministry identifies climate change and biodiversity conservation as two of the "most pressing challenges of our time." The report also focuses on sustainable mobility, stressing that transport accounts for almost a third of Germany's final energy consumption and almost a fifth of the country's greenhouse gas emissions, and that the sector is far from living up to the national climate targets.