Germany a climate protection role model only in terms of renewables expansion - opinion
tageszeitung (taz)
With its Energiewende, Germany is a global role model, but only in terms of renewable energy development, writes Bernhard Pötter in an opinion piece for the tageszeitung (taz). “In terms of the difficult policy and economic decisions, we duck out like everyone else. Saving energy and phasing out dirty energies – that we really don’t do,” writes Pötter. Climate change had not even made it into the preamble of the coalition talks’ blueprint agreed by the CDU/CSU and the SPD on 12 January, he writes.
Find the opinion piece in German here.
For background on the coalition talks, read the CLEW article German party leaders agree energy policy blueprint for coalition talks and the coalition watch.
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