05/05/2021 (Agence Europe) – Germany will step up its climate ambition, German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday 5 May. The German government now intends to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 65% by 2030 in relation to 1990, compared to 55% previously, and 88% by 2040. In addition, the country intends to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045, five years earlier than planned. The announcement comes days after the country’s Constitutional Court ruled that the current targets of Germany’s climate law are “insufficient” (see EUROPE 12711/23). (DG)