>From what I've heard Miranda has played a major role in this commission. We should all be proud of the way she has been able to exemplify the principle of praxis on this important issue.
Marc A. Levy Deputy Director, CIESIN Adjunct Professor, SIPA Columbia University PO Box 1000 61 Route 9W Palisades, NY 10964 t +1 845-365-8964 f +1 845-365-8922 m +1 845-270-5762 On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Miranda Schreurs <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I thought you might be interested in the report the German Ethics Committee > on a Safe Energy Supply just issued. I translated the recommendation section > into English (i.e. it is not an official translation). The rest of the > report is still only available in German. > > Today the German government announced that while maintaining its climate > goals (40% CO2 emission reduction by 2020 relative to 1990), it would also > speed up the phase out of nuclear energy. It has announced it will keep the > 7 oldest nuclear power plants that were taken off line just after Fukushima, > off line. The remaining plants are to be phased out by 2021 or earlier > (with a possible one year extension to 2022 in the case of problems with the > transition). With this decision, Germany is planning to be a world leader > as a major manufacturing country in shifting to renewables and advancing new > environmental technologies. > > Best wishes, > > Miranda > > -- > ************************************* > Prof. Miranda Schreurs > Director, Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) > Department of Political and Social Sciences > Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science > Freie Universitat Berlin > Ihnestr. 22 / D - 14195 Berlin-Dahlem > phone: (+)49 - 30 - 838 56687 > fax: (+)49 - 30 - 838 566 85 > web: www.fu-berlin.de/ffu > >
