Germany praises new electrification target at Bonn climate meetings

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2026-06-12

Cologne (dpa) - Progress is being made at the climate change conference in Bonn, the German government believes, with a new target on the share of electricity in final energy demand set to be a key theme of the UN's COP31 summit in Antalya later this year. Jochen Flasbarth, a junior minister in the German Environment Ministry, said on Friday that the Turkish presidency of the next global climate change summit, set for November, is demonstrating......

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