Last had the FDP demanded more options for heating with wood. “Wood chips and pellets are renewable energy sources, and heating with wood must remain permitted, and also in new buildings,” said parliamentary group leader Christian Dürr of the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”. Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) had recently shown himself to be willing to compromise.
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“The forests are already in today Deutschland and globally overexploited with correspondingly devastating consequences for biodiversity,” the environmental organizations said in a statement. “Forests are increasingly threatening to become a source of CO2.” They warned: “If global energy requirements were only met with wood, the world‘s forests would be almost wiped out after a year.” among other fine dust free.