RWE touts updated climate goals to align with 1.5C

Cecilia Keating
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An opencast mine operated by RWE in North Rhine-Westphalia | Credit: Bert Kaufmann, Flickr
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An opencast mine operated by RWE in North Rhine-Westphalia | Credit: Bert Kaufmann, Flickr

More ambitious strategy made possible by deal brokered with Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia state government to phase out lignite coal by 2030, claims firm

German energy giant RWE has updated its climate goals to align with a 1.5C temperature pathway, as part of a decarbonisation programme it said covered "all corporate activities". The company announced...

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