MOSCOW (Sputnik) — German ministers have broken a month-long deadlock on the nation’s 2050 climate goals in time for the UN conference in Morocco, Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said Friday.
"We have agreed on the text of the climate protection plan for 2050. I am glad and relieved to see this consensus," she wrote on Facebook.
"The climate protection plan will be passed in the cabinet by Monday. I am sure I will be on time for the start of the ministerial segment of the Marrakesh climate conference," Hendricks wrote.
Hendricks, a Social Democrat, accused Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats last week of blocking the plan to limit carbon emissions and called on the chancellor to step in. The use of brown coal in power production was reportedly one of the key points of contention.
