The levy initially was designed to shave off an additional 22 million tonnes from Germany's CO2 emissions by 2020, but a later version toned that down to 16 million tonnes.
Now Gabriel says that he, together with the head of the mining union IG BCE, Michael Vassiliadis; and the economics, energy, industry and commerce minister of North-Rhine Westphalia state, Garrelt Duin, have developed a plan to gradually take coal-fired power plants off the grid.
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