Laschet promotes plan for expansion of renewables

CDU chancellor candidate Armin Laschet has presented a 15-point plan for the expansion of renewable energies one day after the Triell. „To achieve the Paris climate targets and become a climate-neutral industrialized country by 2045, Germany needs 100 percent renewable energy as soon as possible,“ reads the paper, which Laschet presented with fellow party members Thomas Heilmann, Andreas Jung and Wiebke Winter. However, many of the demands in the paper are not entirely new. Here are some of the proposals: