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The German government should protect poorer households against incurring higher costs from the rising national carbon price, researchers at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) said in a report. The rise means badly-insulated homes heated with oil and gas boilers would pay relatively more. In the report, the researchers propose that landlords, not tenants, should pay the associated carbon costs of heating with fossil fuels.
Germany is gradually increasing its national price on carbon emissions in the buildings sector to incentivise the move towards more climate-friendly ways of heating – such as district heating, geothermal or heat pumps – and reduce fossil fuel use.
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