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Cutting Carbon Costs: Learning from Germany's Energy Saving Program (Series/What Works Collaborative)
Anne Power, Monika Zulauf

Germany is leading the way in developing "green" technologies and has the most ambitious energy-saving program in Europe, aiming for a 30 percent reduction in energy usage by 2020, and a 30-percent renewable energy share, consisting mainly of biomass, wind, and solar. Germany's experience - its success and lessons learned - provide a solid evidence base from which nations like the United States can "leapfrog" Europe, and tackle even more pressing energy and climate change demands through deliberate public and private action.

Posted to Web: March 18, 2011Publication Date: March 01, 2011

 

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