German farmers sue government over missed climate targets

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German farmers sue government over missed climate targetsDismayed by the German government's failure to meet climate protection targets, dairy farmer Heiner Luetke Schwienhorst has filed a lawsuit against Berlin to force it into action. To me, that's besides the point," said Schwienhorst, who suffered his poorest harvest in three decades after a record drought. Together with two other farmers and Greenpeace, Schwienhorst has launched a challenge against the German government for having "given up" trying to achieve cuts in greenhouse gas emissions set out under its own climate target, as well as under European law.


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