Germany's Green Policies Actually Increase CO2 Emissions

Germany’s policy of “sustainable” energy projects, i.e. wind turbines and solar parks, has actually increased its CO2 emissions, according to a Belgian expert. Sputnik quotes Jean-Louis Butre, from the French Federation for a Sustainable Environment, debunking the EU’s sustainable energy policy: “Deciding to invest massively and above all in intermittent ‘renewable’ sources of electricity like Germany or Denmark have done, increasing their solar and wind ‘farms’ has imposed the construction, in parallel, of the same capacity in coal and gas power plants to compensate for the absence or excess of wind and sun. The result is evident: Merkel’s Germany has increased its emissions of CO2 in place of reducing them. Not only does the German policy lead to negative growth of the economy and stagnation, but it does not reduce emissions of CO2,” Butre stated.