Japan Times: Germany’s ambitious targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions — coupled with its policy of phasing out nuclear power generation — pose a very serious challenge for the competitiveness of German industries, Daniel Goffart, a senior editor for politics and the economy at Handelsblatt, told the Oct. 10 symposium. As a country lacking in sufficient natural resources just like Japan, Germany relies on its technology on the one hand and energy imports on the other to sustain its …