Dr. Benny Peiser 15.09.2008 18:08 +Feedback
Deutschlands selbstgemachte Klimakatastrophe
Germany must push for change in how European countries share the financial burdens of tighter carbon trading rules after 2012, or face prohibitive rises in carbon avoidance costs, energy users’ group VIK said on Monday. “Germany’s carbon trading position has to become top of the political agenda as we get closer to elections in 2009, the ball is in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s court to avert disaster,” said Alfred Richmann, managing director of the Essen-based group. Richmann’s remarks came days after the European Parliament’s industry committee endorsed plans for CO2 emitters to buy permits for their greenhouse gas emissions from 2013 at auction, while ignoring German pleas for a raft of exemptions. VIK has calculated that the auctions will bring the government 15 billion euros ($21 billion) of additional annual income which would have to be borne by consumers in the sectors it represents, including steel, paper, aluminum and cement. Power prices would increase by 50 percent after 2012.
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