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Court Orders German Government to Tighten Its Climate Plans

  • Judges say climate plan must meet sector specific targets
  • Program “suffers from methodological flaws,” order notes

A German national flag flies above the Reichstag building in Berlin.

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A Berlin court has ordered the German government to overhaul its 2023 climate program to meet sector-specific targets for 2030.

The Berlin-Brandenburg Administrative Appeals Court late on Thursday ruled in favor of German environmental group DUH — the second such legal setback for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s administration in recent months.

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