Category: Energy Democracy

Germany is not doing all it can to cut back energy use and increase economic pressure on Russia, I argue in this piece for China Dialogue.

The German Greens have opened up yet another new chapter in its fourth decade. After a first stint from 1998 to 2005, the Greens are governing at the federal level only for the second time.

Angela Merkel probably understands the climate crisis better than most heads of government. Nevertheless, her actual climate policy record is weak.

Gradually, Germans are coming to realize that Chancellor Merkel is no longer going to be […]

In political terms Germany differs from most Anglo-Saxon countries in at least one regard: its voting system. How does proportional voting shape forming a government, policy outcomes, and a country’s political culture?

Federal elections are set to take place in the fall of 2021 and unlike in 1998, the Greens would enter coalition negotiations with a wealth of experience in government on the Länder level, including a strong record as a federal climate force.

Europe faces a massive wave of nuclear reactor closures. But it lacks a coherent approach to organize this process. Building up capacities for exnovation would help to turn decommissioning into a strategy of ecological modernization.

The amount of nuclear waste is growing worldwide. But even 70 years after the beginning […]

Cars have taken over our cities. They pollute the air and are noisy – but […]

Parallel to the US Midterm elections, referendums on climate policy were also voted on in […]