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In their third grand coalition, Germany鈥檚 governing parties CDU/CSU and SPD are showing less interest in environmental protection than ever before, Veit Medick, Ralf Neukirch, Michael Sauga and Gerald Traufetter write in Der Spiegel. The coalition agreement has been a 鈥渄ocument of cowardice鈥� as it scraps the 2020 climate target and postpones the coal exit indefinitely, and the parties鈥� protection of carmakers points in a similar direction, the authors say. Fears among voters over the digital revolution, high migration levels and growing inequality have made climate protection and other environmental concerns side issues, they write. The coalition鈥檚 plan to set up commissions for the coal exit and emissions reduction in the transport and heating sectors is based on a 鈥渃ompletely unrealistic schedule鈥�, says Felix Matthes of the Institute for Applied Ecolocy (脰办辞-滨苍蝉迟颈迟耻迟), meaning that the parties will already be in election mode again once the commissions are ready to advise lawmakers.

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Find more information in the 威力彩玩法 dossier The next German government and the energy transition.

The deal between energy companies E.ON and RWE is an attempt to stem their decline by each focusing on a part of the old conventional energy world that may come costly to consumers and ultimately to the whole economy, energy economist Claudia Kemfert from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) argues in an opinion piece for business magazine Capital. In the short run, the high guaranteed returns in the regulated grid market might look attractive for E.ON, but in the long run renewables and e-mobility would become the boom segments. RWE, meanwhile, had no history as an able and successful player in the renewables business, and its current portfolio of coal, gas and nuclear plants had no future, she writes. 鈥淲ith the mega merger they want to wind the clock back one last time. But the time of the energy giants is over,鈥� Kemfert says.

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To make their national energy transition a success, France and Germany need to closely coordinate the reduction of nuclear and coal power, French and German think tanks IDDRI and Agora Energiewende* have concluded in a joint study. 鈥淚f the two countries do not proceed in lockstep, this could mean major distortions in the energy sector for both,鈥� Agora Energiewende says in its press release. Germany could fall even more off track in emission reduction while France risks making futile investments in its 鈥渙versized nuclear plant stock鈥�.

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See the 威力彩玩法 dossier Germany鈥檚 energy transition in the European context for more information.

*Like the 威力彩玩法, Agora Energiewende is funded by the Stiftung Mercator and the European Climate Foundation.