“Germany and Sweden are not willing to implement the Paris Climate Agreement”

The approval of the sale of Vattenfall’s German lignite plants and mines to Czech utility EPH showed that Germany and Sweden were not willing to implement the Paris Climate Agreement, says Johan Rockström, executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, in an interview with Die Zeit. “Germany and Sweden are seen as global leaders on climate protection, and they are rich. If these two countries don’t take the Climate Agreement seriously – who will?” Rockström asks. He proposes that Germany translate the Paris Agreement into national plans, for example setting deadlines to run steel production without coal, exit lignite, and abolish diesel cars.

Read the full interview in German here.

Find out more about the German positions on the Paris Climate Summit in this CLEW dossier.