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Climate protection

EU summit: extensive dispute over energy prices

On the first day of the EU summit, the heads of state and government had a heated debate about a strategy to combat record energy prices. There was also disagreement on what role nuclear power should play for the time being.

By Eric Bonse

Susi Dennison (ECFR) über Grüne Technologien

Why the EU is a world-leading climate power

How can global emissions be reduced? COP26 will not provide a satisfactory answer, writes Susi Dennison of ECFR. But that is where Europe comes in – the EU has some tools at its disposal to use its climate power more effectively.

By Redaktion Table

Climate change and digitalization: the new government's monumental task

Representatives of the Federal Environment Agency, academia, trade unions and German business are calling on the incoming German government to focus its political program entirely on climate change and digitalization. The unusual alliance is not alone in its demands for reform – but it may carry special weight.

By Falk Steiner