On August 20, 2009
Greentech Abroad: Australia’s 20 Percent and a Million Electric Cars For Germany
Major moves toward clean energy are taking place in other developed countries as governments find ways to navigate between today’s recession and worries of future global warming. In Australia, lawmakers have just passed plans to generate 20 percent of all electricity from renewable sources by 2020, while Germany aims to have a million electric cars by the same date. Australia has been grappling with the opposing demands of environmentalists and its own powerful coal industry for over a year, and reacted much as the United States has, with compromises aimed at industry. Cap and trade, although passed, has already been delayed until 2011 and only holds a weak target of reducing emissions to 5 percent below 2000 levels by 2020….
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