To help protect the climate, SPD members should vote for grand coalition - opinion

To help protect the climate, members of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) should vote in favour of a grand coalition government with Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance, writes Benjamin von Brackel in an opinion piece for klimaretter.info. “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush,” Brackel argues. Provisions in the coalition agreement would “indeed advance Germany in terms of energy transition and climate protection.” These include coming up with an end date for coal-fired power generation; increasing the share of renewables in the power mix to 65 percent; and setting greenhouse gas reduction targets for each sector. The SPD will announce the result of the vote on Sunday, 4 March.

Find the opinion piece in German here.

For background, read the CLEW dossier The next German government and the energy transition.