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Newspaper Article
Germany's fossil fuels tack may be model
2015
Overview
\"Germany is the first country in the world to show they can uncouple growth from burning of fossil fuels,\" said Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank. \"This is the main task of our generation.\" \"The attitude then was, 'Go ahead, you can take the lead on this one,\"' Mr. [Dirk Messner] said. \"There were many at the time who considered this a wacko-green idea.\" Lignite, or brown coal, looms as Germany's potential Achilles' heel. While generous tariffs to accelerate investment in solar and wind power helped spur renewable energy development, no similar incentives were offered to address the dependence on such coal, Germany's only abundant native fossil fuel.
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New York Times Company
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