5-point plan for climate protection – German development minister

Implementing the Paris Climate Agreement must be a priority in the upcoming coalition talks, according to German economic cooperation and development minister Gerd Müller (CSU). Müller set out a 5-point plan for climate protection in Bild am Sonntag. He also called for greater financial resources and powers for his department, so that it could become the country's  “international climate ministry”. Germany should promote the global energy transition by supplying other countries with technology, know-how and investment in renewable energy, he writes. “Every euro that we invest in climate protection in Africa is 100 times more effective than here.”

For background on the coalition talks read the CLEW factsheets Coalition watch – The making of a new German government and The long road to a new government coalition in Germany.