[FR] Euroquestions #22 | Germany’s energy transition: challenges for a new coalition

‘The next German federal government will be the last one that can still turn the climate crisis around,’ said Annalena Baerbock, the Green Party’s candidate for chancellor, during a televised debate between the candidates of the three leading German parties ahead of the federal elections.

On 26 September 2021, German citizens will go to the polls to elect new members of the National Assembly (Bundestag). The government coalition that succeeds Angela Merkel’s will have the crucial task of rapidly transforming the country’s energy and climate policy.

For this edition of Euroquestions, we welcome Marie Delair, research assistant at the Jacques Delors Institute’s Energy Centre, and Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, director of the Jacques Delors Institute’s Energy Centre.

They will examine how the next German coalition will have to change scale and make choices that resemble more of a ‘major transformation’, or even a genuine energy ‘revolution’, in order to achieve the new goal of climate neutrality by 2045, which Germany has set itself. They will also take stock of 20 years of German energy policy choices, which seem to show how the country is succeeding in its ‘energy transition’, which raises new challenges.

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