Climate protection: the loser of the election campaign

Climate protection and the energy transition are among the losers of the German election campaign, writes Ralf Köpke in sector magazine Energie & Management. The current grand coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU and the Social Democrats has failed to put the country on track to meet its 2020 climate and energy savings targets, he writes. Now, the chancellor has only given vague hints on key issues such as coal exit, the end of the combustion engine or the electrification of heating and transport during the campaign. The campaigning parties have also failed to explain how they plan to keep the broader public and businesses on board to reach the volume of installed renewables needed for the Energiewende.

Find the article in German here.

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