“Election programmes fail the 2-degree goal”

Germany’s major parties say that they are committed to the Paris Climate Agreement, but climate protection measures specified in the election programmes of CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP and the Green Party are not enough to reach the goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, write economists Christine Merk and Wilfried Rickels of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) in an analysis. The four parties told voters that limiting greenhouse gases alone was enough. But, according to Rickels, there is a scientific consensus that technologies to withdraw CO₂ from the atmosphere and save it (negative emissions) are necessary.

Read the press release in German here and the analysis in German here.

Find the party’s election programmes in the CLEW dossier Vote2017 - German elections and the Energiewende.