Selin in El Mercurio on Germany’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Henrik Selin, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was interviewed for a recent article on whether the latest German policy package on climate change will be enough to get Germany on path to meet its 2030 goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Selin was interviewed for a September 21, article in El Mercurio. From the text of the article:
“It is very likely that they will not be enough to get Germany on path to meet its 2030 goal,” Selin said.
Selin said he doesn’t believe that the latest German policy package on climate change, based on a recognition that Germany will fail to meet its goal for 2020 of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent below 1990 levels, will be enough to get Germany on path to meet its 2030 goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent below 1990 levels — and definitely not enough for the 2050 goal of carbon neutrality.
Henrik Selin conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. He is a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technical University of Munich. His most recent book is EU and Environmental Governance, by Routledge Press, and is also the author of Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management by MIT Press.