The „Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance“ (BSW) calls for a fundamentally different climate policy in Germany and Europe. The Alliance thus breaks with the most important previous elements of Germany’s policy area. Unlike the consensus of all parliamentary groups in the German Bundestag (with the exception of the AfD), the BSW rejects the emissions trading instrument, opposes an energy supply based entirely on renewables and advocates importing Russian gas. The energy and climate policy ideas of the newly founded association and precursor to a future political party, „Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – Für Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit“ („Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – For Reason and Justice“) are, however, still general. Some of them do not stand up to scrutiny.