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On January 24, a prominent environmental group announced that it filed a lawsuit against the German government.
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On January 24, a prominent environmental group announced that it filed a lawsuit against the German government.
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Fox News reports that Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) accuses the government of failing to meet its own climate targets.
Fox News reports that Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) accuses the government of failing to meet its own climate targets.
According to BUND's submission to the Berlin-Brandenburg administrative court, the government should put forward an emergency program to meet those targets.
Both sectors have reportedly lagged behind on reaching legally binding targets for reducing the amount of greenhouse gases they produce.
According to BUND, time is running short for Germany to meet national climate goals set for 2030 and an ultimate goal of achieving "net zero" emissions by 2045.
Earlier this month, a report by the think tank Agora Energiewende warned that Germany's emissions were likely higher than the target set for 2020.
Fox News reports that the German government has already laid out an ambitious program aimed at expanding the use of renewable energy in the near future.
However, two members of Germany's coalition government, the environmentalist Greens and the libertarian Free Democratic Party, disagree on the plan.
However, two members of Germany's coalition government, the environmentalist Greens and the libertarian Free Democratic Party, disagree on the plan.
Their ongoing differences have stalled national efforts to significantly reduce fossil fuel use in the transport sector
