The supposed „climate chancellor“ is not making Germany look good. Olaf Scholz announced that Germany intends to develop new gas fields off the coast of Senegal, supported Transport Minister Wissing’s week-long blockade of negotiated EU-wide emissions standards for cars, and pressed for watering down the CO2 sector targets in the Climate Change Act. He has also so far failed to give further impetus to the economic momentum behind renewables with his political support.