Usually, we at Climate.Table often look at the wide world of climate policy with great interest. But today, we are – pardon us – very German. Two weeks before an important federal election, this is perhaps understandable. And so we’re reporting on the homework that the Council of Experts on Climate Changes has for the […]
The demandThe CDU/CSU, FDP and AfD disagree with the end of the use of nuclear energy to generate electricity in Germany – even though the German parliament unanimously decided to phase out nuclear power in 2011 under the leadership of Angela Merkel’s CDU/SPD government, including with the votes of the FDP. Therefore, they call for […]
The German government and Bundestag have made little progress in reducing environmental and climate-damaging subsidies in the past legislative period. According to internal assessments by experts on environmentally harmful subsidies from the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), the abolition of some subsidies was announced – but in most cases, these were not implemented or new environmentally […]
Today, we are focusing on how we talk about the climate crisis and the measures to counter it. For instance: How much climate action can and does Germany want to afford at a time of economic recession? Sabine Nallinger from the Alliance for Climate and Economy and Holger Lösch from the Federation of German Industries […]
Table.Briefings: Ms. Nallinger, Germany is in a recession. Companies lament high energy prices and too much bureaucracy, partly because of the Green Deal. Wouldn’t it make sense to postpone the climate targets?Sabine Nallinger: I see climate targets as drivers of innovation. It’s about us as a global community making the economy climate-neutral. That’s what we […]
Four weeks before the general election, the political debate in Germany is heating up – especially on the topics of migration and isolation. The climate crisis is fading into the background in the general perception. But that could change next Friday: That’s when the “Climate Neutrality Foundation” presents a package of measures that the next […]
With a package of 55 specific measures, the “Climate Neutrality Foundation” has presented the next German government with instructions for implementing Germany’s climate targets. The “Policy instruments for a climate-neutral Germany” summarize projects from all sectors. The study, which will be published on Tuesday and debated at a conference in Berlin on Friday, is available […]
Now that Donald Trump has taken office and declared his intention to largely withdraw from national and international climate policy, counter-strategies are emerging from the climate community: Alongside legal action, progressive US states such as California are relying on their own climate action regulations. Many voices stress the economic benefits of climate action. They hope […]
All eyes were on Washington, D.C. yesterday. From a climate perspective at least, the day was reminiscent of “Groundhog Day,” because for the USA it brought another withdrawal from the Paris Agreement – and global attention, the elixir of life for the avowed climate denier, enemy of renewables and demolition contractor of US democracy, Donald […]
US President Donald Trump is once again directing the USA towards largely turning its back on national and international climate action. Immediately after his inauguration as the 47th POTUS on Monday afternoon local time in Washington, D.C., the White House declared, among many other “first” priorities, “President Trump will withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement.” […]