Sometimes laws make progress when no one expects it: This was the case with the Climate Protection Act on Monday. In the morning, the Expert Council for Climate Issues explained why it was a bad idea to abolish the binding sector targets. In the afternoon, the news came that this was exactly what had been decided. Malte Kreutzfeldt analyzes the details for you.

On the occasion of this week’s Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Bernhard Pötter also explains the current state of the climate-friendly restructuring of the international financial architecture. In this context, we also look at how high levels of debt are holding back climate investments by poor countries.