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Calls for more ambition from citizens, pressure from EU partners, the 2018 heat wave and drought and looming costs for non-compliance with greenhouse gas reduction targets have caused Germany鈥檚 grand coalition government parties to focus on climate policy, . 鈥淭he coalition is hardly recognisable鈥� as the rhetoric had changed greatly since chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 Conservatives (CDU/CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) signed their government treaty in early 2018. The parties hasten to present climate action plans, Merkel heralds the end of an 鈥渆asy-peasy鈥� approach on climate policy and CSU head Markus S枚der aims to spearhead the movement, writes Bauchm眉ller. The coalition now has to 鈥渟eriously deliver鈥� at the climate cabinet meeting on 20 September, climate economist Ottmar Edenhofer, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), told S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. Otherwise, 鈥渋t shows it is no longer capable of anything鈥�.

Merkel has promised key policy decisions in a meeting of the so-called climate cabinet on 20 September. By the end of the year, the government aims to present a comprehensive climate action law package that ensures Germany reaches its 2030 climate targets. The coalition, however, is becoming increasingly fragile as election losses have shown that ever more voters are turning away from the established forces in the political centre, with the pro-climate action Green Party biting into traditional voter camps of both the SPD and the CDU/CSU.