{"id":548398,"date":"2023-01-19T10:12:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T04:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=548398"},"modified":"2023-01-19T11:14:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:44:22","slug":"german-chancellor-reaffirms-goal-of-attaining-climate-neutrality-by-2045","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/german-chancellor-reaffirms-goal-of-attaining-climate-neutrality-by-2045\/","title":{"rendered":"German Chancellor reaffirms goal of attaining climate neutrality by 2045"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a special address at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reaffirmed his country&#8217;s goal of attaining climate neutrality, or net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, by 2045.<\/p>\n<p>While the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine since February 2022 initially appeared to throw a spanner into German and European ambitions for the transition to renewables, Scholz sees Moscow&#8217;s aggression as only having accelerated that shift.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our transformation toward a climate-neutral economy &#8211; the fundamental task of our century &#8211; is currently taking on an entirely new dynamic,&#8221; said Scholz, &#8220;not in spite of, but because of, the Russian war&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a special address at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reaffirmed his country&#8217;s goal of attaining climate neutrality, or net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, by 2045. While the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine since February 2022 initially appeared to throw a spanner into German and European ambitions for the transition to renewables, Scholz sees Moscow&#8217;s aggression as only having accelerated that shift. &#8220;Our transformation toward a climate-neutral economy &#8211; the fundamental task of our century &#8211; is currently taking on an entirely new dynamic,&#8221; said Scholz, &#8220;not in spite of, but because of, the Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}