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1
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How much did renewables subsidisation change by?

A

3.5% to 30% in 2015

2
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Germany did what to reduce wind energy investors’ payback time

A

Increase energy prices so consumers paid, and businesses earned, more to decrease it from 20 years

3
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Germany now have what aim

A

40-50% of wind energy by 2025

4
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Germany want to do what to nuclear?

A

Phase it out but this means temporarily using more coal and ga stations increasing bad environmental impacts

5
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However Germany aren’t doing anything with?

A

Getting consumers to be more ‘green’ e.g. electric cars, solar panels?, insulation

6
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Government want to replace feed-in tariffs with what?

A

Getting investors to bid against each other to build new solar/wind to increase efficiency

7
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Problems with global agreements

A

Countries have other priorities like economic growth
Developing argue they don’t contribute to GHG much
Many countries/consumers can’t afford renewables as more expensive than FF
Countries still have FF reserves they want to use