Climate issues have traditionally had a difficult status in the German state of Brandenburg. The energy infrastructure is based on climate-damaging lignite-fired power generation, and the state has one of the highest per capita CO2 emissions in Germany at around 18 tons. Although agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate extremes and the „Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research“ in the state capital has been providing world-renowned science on climate policy since 1992, the state’s climate institutions are weak: For example, it has only been four years since the state government officially started dealing with climate action in the Ministry of the Environment. Climate policy hardly played a role in the election campaign that is now ending. It remains to be seen whether the Green Party, which pushed the issue in the government, will be part of the next government or even in the state parliament.