Chancellor Angela Merkel cabinet has approved a watered-down version of a climate emergency programme for 2022 and 2023 that foresees an additional €8bn ($9.6bn) to finance climate protection measures, but to the dismay of renewables advocates no longer includes a previously planned steep hike in wind and solar capacity targets.

A draft of the climate action plan seen by Recharge in early June had still envisioned boosting Germany’s cumulative installed onshore wind capacity to 95GW by 2030 and solar to 150GW, up from 54.9GW