CLEW Masterclass: What to expect from Germany’s government in energy and climate?

We are inviting: Journalists
2 July 2025 at 16.00-17.00 CEST
Worldwide
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After months of uncertainty, Germany's new government under Friedrich Merz is set in place since May 6, with urgent topics on the agenda to decide upon. Merz's new cabinet - and especially his ministers for the economy, transport, and the environment - have been urged to present convincing plans in the first 100 days in office to underpin his government's ambition to revive the economy while holding course on emissions reduction.
Many questions remain open so far: What will be left from the previous heating law that the coalition treaty suggests to abandon? What will the next budget have in stock for climate action and what are the concrete plans? What has the government promised and how will it actually address energy policy and renewables? And what, amid these new challenges, will happen with the historic 500-billion-euro fund for climate and infrastructure?
As the government currently navigates its first 100 days in office in times of global uncertainty, Clean Energy Wire invites journalists globally to join our masterclass on the new government's plans in energy and climate policy.

"Climate Protection Act" in front of German parliament. Source: Unsplash, Nico Roicke

 

AGENDA

16.00 - 16.05

Welcome and introduction: What does the new coalition look like?

By moderator Sven Egenter, Clean Energy Wire

16.05 - 16.35

  • General overview, Benjamin Wettengel

  • Mobility and industry, Sören Amelang

16.35 - 17.00

Q&A; open discussion

Sören Amelang is a staff Correspondent for Clean Energy Wire. He focuses on the shift to clean mobility, industry decarbonisation, and the role of hydrogen. He also keeps a watchful eye on general company efforts and claims to become climate-friendly. Before joining CLEW in 2015, he covered international business, economics and politics for Reuters.

Benjamin Wehrmann is staff Correspondent for Clean Energy Wire. He mainly covers sectors that Germany wants to join (renewables), plans to exit from (coal) or has already left behind (nuclear) – and everything in between. Benjamin started out as a reporter covering politics and business at news agencies AFP and dpa in Germany and France and has worked for both nationwide and niche media outlets. For CLEW, he has climbed wind turbines, entered nuclear storage facilities and even visited ‘lunar landscapes’ in former coal mining areas to bring Germany’s energy transition closer to the rest of the world.

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