CLEW Webinar: After two months in office - What to expect from Germany’s government in energy and climate?

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9 July 2025 at 16.00-17.00 CET
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After months of uncertainty, Germany's new government under chancellor Friedrich Merz is in place since early May. Merz's coalition - and especially his ministers for the economy, transport, and the environment - are under pressure 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 so far remain unanswered: What will be left from the previous government's 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 will happen with Germany's unprecedented 500-billion-euro special fund for infrastructure and climate neutrality?

Clean Energy Wire invites other journalists and everyone else interested in the new government's plans in energy and climate policy to sign up to our masterclass and join the debate with our CLEW newsroom. 

Germany'The new Bundestag is set in place. Source: Unsplash, Claudio Schwarz.

 

AGENDA

16.00 - 16.05

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

By moderator Sven Egenter, Clean Energy Wire

16.05 - 16.35

  • Mobility, industry & hydrogen, Sören Amelang

  • Buildings, adaptation & electricity market, Carolina Kyllmann

  • EU, gas & geopolitics, Julian Wettengel

  • Renewables, coal & nuclear, Benjamin Wehrmann

16.35 - 17.00

Q&A; open discussion

Carolina Kyllmann is a staff Correspondent for Clean Energy Wire. She likes to delve into emerging stories in the climate and energy sphere. For CLEW, she covers climate adaptation, the construction sector, and the future electricity system. She believes in journalism as a public service, and when not reporting, she leads the effort to continuously improve CLEW's digital presence.

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.

Julian Wettengel is a staff Correspondent for Clean Energy Wire. He has been reporting on Germany's and Europe's transition to climate neutrality for more than eight years. With beats ranging from gas and geopolitics to German and international climate policy, he has covered several COP climate change conferences and has been on reporting trips to the U.S., Norway, and various EU member states. Drawing on his previous experience as an assistant to a lawmaker in the European Parliament, Julian has helped CLEW build up its EU portfolio of offers, including the weekly "Dispatch from…" newsletter.

 

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