“The energy transition motor of the EU”

After the G20 summit in Hamburg, the governments of France and Germany should use the joint Ministerial Council meeting in Paris to establish the two countries as the “energy transition motor of the European Union”, writes Andreas Kuhlmann, chief executive of the German Energy Agency (dena), in a guest commentary in Tagesspiegel Background. The governments could develop a joint initiative for a price on CO₂, despite criticism that France – with its large share of nuclear power – would profit much more from this than Germany. “Not everything that doesn’t benefit Germany from the start has to be a bad thing,” writes Kuhlmann.

Read the guest commentary in German here.

For background, read the CLEW article German carbon tax most efficient way to meet climate goals -study and CLEW’s full coverage of the G20 Hamburg summit in this dossier.