Germany could nearly eliminate emissions with wind, solar, storage
By Craig Morris on 28 October 2013
Germany’s Energy Agency (Umweltbundesamt or UBA) has come up with a proposal for a 95 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, far more than the country’s current goal of an 80 percent reduction. Craig Morris points out that the recommendations are intended not only for a German audience.
Agriculture might be the single biggest source of CO2 emissions by 2050. (Photo by southgeist,CC BY-SA 2.0)
The UBA has published a 32-page study in English investigating how Germany can go from around 10 tons of CO2-equivalent emissions per capita and year today to less than one ton by 2050. And it wouldn’t be Germany if the proposal did not specify that “we do not need nuclear power or underground CO2 sequestration” [carbon capture and storage, CCS].
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