Jobs, income and German flag economy focuses on the country’s political parties before elections this month, in which many people aim at climate protection measures.
The Frederick Merz-Chairman of the Center-Rett Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the next Chancellor-Honor of the country is given a tip, he said that Heil is only given air to coal and gas power plants if it is given. The German does not harm the industry.
Even active parties on climate issues are less vocal on this subject during the 2021 election.
It has left some experts that the economy is taking precedent at the cost of climate, although climate alliance, research from a German alliance of civil society groups, Most population found Would like to see more climate action.
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Has climate action blamed for Germany’s economic crises?
For the first time in the decades, the economy of Germany has shrunk for two consecutive years, the largest in Europe.
Its industrial export oria has been dull to domestic demand and weak global trade along with high energy prices. While its car industry – the iconic backbone of its economy – has announced the sale and profit of large -scale trimmed and shrinking.
Climate change mitigation policy is not running this economic recession, Gunnar Luder said, a scientist who is focusing on energy infection in Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. “The problems of the German economy are of a structural nature and they are deep.”
Hey said that Germany’s dependence on gas from Russia is an important problem that is expensive for infection far after Ukraine invasion. And that high energy prices have affected the economy, both have discovered production costs for energy-institution industries as steel and chemicals and affect both by increasing the bill for individuals.
According to Luder, Germany’s economic model has proved to be unsafe under international competition and expansion in new markets such as e-mobileness in the new markets of China. “German car manufacturers were very slow and were really too late to move forward on this new trend,” Heer said, the country is now paying for II.
While Europe and America have seen the sale of electric vehicles, they are booming in China, accounting for about 50% of all the cars sold.
Jobs and unseen opportunities ignored
“Common claim that climate protection measures in Germany have a negative impact on the economy,” Camfert said, which argues the clever climate protection measures that OH is often underestimated.
Camfert said that renewal, electrical efficient renovation and expansion of energy efficiency in the industrial sector are all measures that demand investment, which makes “price and jobs”.
He said that the renewable energy sector has so far produced around 400,000 jobs in Germany. Employment in the sector increased by about 15% between 2021-2022, with solar and heat pump sectors expand the fastest.
“If the German closes the economy against climate, there is a risk of job loss, competition and high fossil fuel cost loss,” Camfurt said.
Given the strength of the German economy in manufacturing, machinery and motor vehicles, wind energy, heat pumps, e-mobility or smart control technology to increase flexibility in energy demands. There are opportunities, Luderr said.
The Federation of German Industry (BDI) has supported itself for climate policies to the association of chemical, engineering and electrical companies among its members, the argument of Green Technologies will be important for Germany’s future industrial success.
Experts say that the presence of renewable in energy mixture means that the price of electricity has not increased rapidly as recently scrutinized scrutiny will be expected given the prices of gas.
The German Research Nickel Hohen, a scientist and founder of the Non-Profit Nucleimet Institute, states that energy prices are pushed by the most expensive power source in the energy mixture that is usually in gas plants, while Rancewells leave the world.
“So it is real but our dependence on fossil fuel that increases the prices of power rather than expanding renewal,” said.
Cost of uncertainty and inaction
Many political parties have said that they reverse the controversial building energy act of Germany to phase the fossil fuel heating system, which came into force earlier last year, as well as banning new combination cars in the European Union by 2035 by 2035 Challenges.
This political uncertainty is hanging the plan safety for trade, Stephanie Langkamp said, “Executive Director of Politics in Climate Alliance.” “Whatever you talk to the industry, what you talk to the trade union is one of the most importing things for them to determine their ways for the future.”
She exposes the heat pump industry that has already hired and trained new skilled artisans and at the same time purchasing resources to increase their capacity.
“If you do not invest in climate action today, you face real giant cones, big about the economy and therefore the cost of climate change,” Langkamp said.
Iconomic damage globally due to climate change is estimated that the measures to cut emissions and keep global heating below are six times more than the money required to invest in global heating (3.6 degree fahinheit) , according to a study Scientific magazine published in nature. In Germany, extreme weather discovery in the form of storms and floods estimates that in 2024 alone, € 7 billion ($ 7.2 billion) has been damaged.
Langkamp said that the world is moving towards a climate neutral economy in the next decades and many progresses have already been made in renewable, heat pumps, electric vehicles.
“Some countries or some industries may have separate pace within, but still it is a movement around the world and it will not stop. So what will happen if you do not invest in climate action anymore, then you have Later there will be a problem of competition. “
“The only option for the German economy is real to embrace the challenges and opportunities of green infection,” Luder said. “There is no way. And the greatest risk for the German economy is to slow down infection or to rely very heavy on the old business model that are no Longer Wel.”
Edited by: Jennifer Collins and Tamsin Walker