{"id":4609,"date":"2024-08-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/?p=4609"},"modified":"2024-07-31T09:12:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T07:12:18","slug":"stop-germany-going-it-alone-in-climate-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/stop-germany-going-it-alone-in-climate-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Germany going it alone in climate policy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joachim Weimann is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vwl3.ovgu.de\/Team\/Joachim+Weimann_+Prof_-p-362.html\">professor of economics in Magdeburg<\/a> and advises the think tank <a href=\"https:\/\/denkfabrik-r21.de\/\">R21<\/a> on climate and energy issues. He considers emissions trading systems &#8211; i.e. the pricing of CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions as part of a cap-and-trade system &#8211; to be the decisive lever in climate policy. He sees strengths above all in the market-based approach of the instrument, and strictly rejects a planned economy approach. He is therefore calling for Germany to take a radical step: to end all climate policy laws and regulations. The European Emissions Trading System (ETS) is completely sufficient, but it should be extended to as many sectors of the economy as possible. A successful European climate policy could then be extended globally. He believes that Germany going it alone &#8211; to be climate-neutral five years earlier than the EU, namely in 2045 and not just 2050 &#8211; is counterproductive and grossly wrong. Weimann also criticises the fact that large parts of German politics and NGOs are working within the framework of a national climate policy. He considers the current German energy transition to be unaffordable &#8211; and relies on the &#8220;power of the factual&#8221; to correct it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joachim Weimann is a professor of economics in Magdeburg and advises the think tank R21 on climate and energy issues. He considers emissions trading systems &#8211; i.e. the pricing of CO2 emissions as part of a cap-and-trade system &#8211; to be the decisive lever in climate policy. He sees strengths above all in the market-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4610,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions\/4610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}