Published: March 26th, 2024,
Last updated: March 26th, 2024
In parliament and government, the tug-of-war over the budget for the year 2025 is currently underway. This might potentially lead to the downfall of the coalition government. However, another equally important budget project has already failed in the country: the CO2 budget calculated by the government’s experts. It denotes the amount of CO2 that Germany is allowed to emit to contribute its fair share to keeping the global temperature increase below 1.5 degrees Celsius – and Germany has already exceeded it. Today, we’ll delve into how this happened and what it means.