Helpless bow your head!

Germany, seen as an environmental pioneer, is taking a big step back in environmental policy, according to a leaked draft l.

According to media reports, Germany intends to amend the draft law to cancel the climate target involved in "achieving carbon neutrality in the energy industry by 2035", which has been passed in Germany's lower house of parliame.

In addition, the German government has previously blurred the deadline for phasing out coal power plants, allowing coal-fired and oil-fired generators to return to the German market, and the passage of the draft law means that coal power is no longer in conflict with local environmental protection goals at this sta.

As a major European country, Germany has always been the main force in promoting the EU's green process, and has always been marked by technological advancement and sustainable developme.

Germany's environmental setback

In December, Germany's new government pledged to speed up the phase-out of coal pow.

However, last month, Russia's important pipeline for transporting natural gas to Europe, the Nord Stream 1, was reduced by about 60% due to the lack of key components, causing tensions in EU countri.

German Deputy Chancellor and Economy Minister Habeck thus announced that Germany will significantly increase the use of coal power to get rid of its dependence on Russian natural g.

As one of the leaders of the Green Party, Habeck's statement also means that the German Green Party has taken the lead in returning to one of the most polluting fossil energy sources - co.

Restarting coal is a helpless mo.

In order to keep the industry from suspending, Germany can only turn to highly polluting coal to provide ener.

Europe goes backwards

At the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the European Union had launched an ambitious energy plan, REPower.

But the plan was significantly revised at a meeting of EU energy ministers last mon.

In addition, at the G7 meeting, the leaders of the seven countries once again haggled over climate commitments and renewed investment in overseas fossil fuel projects to reduce energy pressures at ho.

Another "slap in the face" is that EU lawmakers last week put green labels on natural gas and nuclear energy to avoid the dilemma of no investment in these two energy sources due to environmental protection polici.

The overall retrogression of the EU's environmental protection policy is also a helpless trade-o.

Last week, Frans Timmermans, vice-president of the European Commission, warned that this winter, Europe faces a very intense and damaging conflict over energy prices and should return to using fossil fuels in the short term to fend off the danger of civil unre.

"If society is in conflict because there is no energy, then environmental goals are a castle in the a.

We need to make sure people don't feel cold in the coming winter ," he sa.