Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel has defended her decision to end the country’s use of commercial nuclear power next year, but acknowledged that it will make it harder to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the short term.
The decision was taken in the wake of the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear accidents in Japan 10 years ago. Critics have said the move places a double burden on Germany as it seeks to cut carbon emissions to zero by 2045.
“There are other countries that choose differently and in doing so it will be easier for them, in some ways, to achieve climate neutrality,” Ms Merkel told reporters in Germany. “I still believe that in the long term nuclear energy isn't a sustainable form of energy production.”
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