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RI-Report: Merkel on renewables

Switching to renewables can work

German chancellor Angela Merkel has described the nation’s historic switch to renewable energy as both compensation for past industrial sins – and as a model for what other countries could be doing.
“Considering just the amount of greenhouse gas we alone have released into the atmosphere, switching to renewable technology is like repaying a debt,” Merkel told the annual conference of Germany’s
Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) in Berlin yesterday.
 
Please read the article by Jan Wagner from Resonsible Investor.