{"id":423588,"date":"2026-01-28T12:25:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=423588"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:25:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:25:45","slug":"industry-is-being-sacrificed-to-net-zero-ideology-says-siemens-energy-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=423588","title":{"rendered":"Industry is Being Sacrificed to Net Zero Ideology, Says Siemens Energy Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Will Jones<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Europe is sacrificing industry to Net Zero ideology, the Chairman of Siemens Energy has warned, with strict emission targets crippling manufacturing in Germany. The Telegraph <\/em>has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joe Kaeser said strict zero-emission targets had crippled manufacturing and heavy industry in Germany and beyond. He called on the German Government to work on a more \u201ceconomically feasible plan\u201d for the country to decarbonise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe critics have a point when they say you risk your economic power [and] society\u2019s wellbeing by being ideological about Net Zero,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His comments will raise questions about Britain\u2019s approach to Net Zero, which official forecasts show will add hundreds of billions of pounds to government spending over the next few decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well as questions about cost, the UK and Europe face increasing pressure from the US to dial back plans which Trump administration officials claim are making countries \u201csubservient\u201d to Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sir Keir Starmer will fly to China this week in the first visit by a British Prime Minister since 2018, with energy likely to be among the topics discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaeser, who previously ran German industrial giant Siemens before becoming Chairman of its energy division, warned that European companies were becoming uncompetitive because of green energy policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He criticised the Government in Berlin for forcing zero emission targets on carmakers and demanding that businesses prove the products they sell have no connection to deforestation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The German businessman also criticised officials for sacrificing reliable, cheap energy by ditching fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaeser said: \u201cThey became ideologists on renewables. That\u2019s a bad idea. If you are an industrial country and cannot provide a sustainable, affordable and reliable source of energy, you have a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany\u2019s share of global emissions is currently less than 2% \u2013 much lower than other industrialised countries including Brazil and India \u2013 and Kaeser said even halving this figure would make little difference to the global picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By comparison, China now accounts for a third of global carbon emissions while the UK\u2019s share is less than 1%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy would you risk your industrial competitiveness by maybe being a rounding error in the global discussion?\u201d Kaeser said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany has a goal of hitting zero carbon emissions by 2045, a more aggressive target<\/a> than Britain\u2019s legally enshrined 2050 deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaeser, who is also the Chairman of Daimler trucks, attacked the EU\u2019s approach of reaching Net Zero by regulation. He said Brussels spent too much time drawing up rules for manufacturers without considering how they could kill demand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Worth reading in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stop Press:<\/strong> Britain\u2019s energy industry faces collapse thanks to Labour\u2019s \u201cchaotic and needless\u201d rundown of the oil and gas sector, one of its biggest union backers has warned<\/a>. Louise Gilmour, Scotland Secretary of the GMB union, says \u201cdelusional\u201d Net Zero policies championed by Ed Miliband are causing \u201carguably the most destructive industrial calamity in our nation\u2019s history\u201d, the Telegraph <\/em>reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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