This Monday, we saw how quickly the political situation in Berlin can change: In the morning, the Expert Council had once again provided good reasons why the planned amendment to the Climate Protection Act is a bad idea when it presented its latest review report on the 2023 climate balance at the Federal Press Conference: this would remove „the specific responsibility of a ministry“, Brigitte Knopf had warned as deputy chair of the committee. At the same time, she made it clear that – contrary to what Minister Volker Wissing claimed last week – there was no threat of driving bans even with the existing law, as it already offers some flexibility.