News Digest Item
14 Dec 2018

“PR world champion”

tageszeitung (taz)

There is growing opposition within the federal government to the Energiewende and bold climate targets, writes Malte Kreutzfeldt in tageszeitung (taz). Last week, the EU Commission called for greater commitment from German ministries to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the ruling Christian Democratic Party's economics officials oppose the energy transition and Christian and Social Democrats alike are picking apart the environment ministry's Climate Action Plan 2050. Meanwhile, the government continues to paint itself as the “climate champion of the world”, writes Kreutzfeldt.

Read the article in German here.

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