Germany's Christian Social Union (CSU), the sister party of Chancellor Ange...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at the Bellevue summit venue during the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, August 25, 2019. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
FRANKFURT - Germany’s Christian Social Union , the sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats , are planning to launch a climate bond to help fund its efforts to reduce emission targets. “Climate change needs billions of euros of investment in climate friendly technologies,” Alexander Dobrindt, a senior lawmaker from the CSU Bavarian party in Merkel’s coalition, told weekly Bild am Sonntag.
“That’s why we’re planning to incentivize and reward citizens’ investment in climate protection via positive interest rates. For that reason we are planning to launch a climate bond with a return of 2% a year guaranteed by the state which runs until 2030.”Germany plans to cut CO2 emissions by 40% until 2020 compared with 1990 levels, and by 80-95% by 2050. It also plans to spend at least 40 billion euros in regions affected by a planned exit from coal-fired power generation.
A senior government official told Reuters earlier this month that Germany is considering ditching its balanced budget policy to help finance a costly climate protection program with new debt.
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