The coalition agreement is in place, the ministries are distributed, and one thing is clear: the traffic light has set itself major goals in the energy transition. Germany is to get around 80 of its electricity from renewable energies by 2030. It is currently around 48 percent. In addition, the expansion of renewable energy systems has recently progressed far too slowly. For comparison: From around 420 new wind turbines per year, the jump must now be made immediately to 1500 windmills.
In order for the complete renovation of the energy system to be a success, citizens in particular must be involved much better in the implementation, says Harald Uphoff, managing director of the “100 Percent Renewable” foundation. How this can work, why a lot more professional mediators are needed, and why the traffic light should definitely enable more economic benefits for the local people through the energy systems, says Uphoff in the climate podcast.
Because it is also clear: Populists, especially from the right, have the energy transition in focus. AfD politicians have tightened the tone massively, says Uphoff, “they turn opponents into enemies”. How this can be prevented and, on the contrary, the people in the respective regions stay in dialogue in order to make valid criticism possible, Uphoff also says in the yardstick. And another point is important to him: “Renewable energies are not the problem with species protection”.
The podcast is also about the EU Parliament’s approval of the mildly reformed EU agricultural policy. For the most part, the following principle continues: the farmers with the most land also get the most money. What has changed anyway, and what the new Agriculture Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens) can now do for climate protection on this basis Susanne Ehlerding vom Tagesspiegel Background Energy and Climate.
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Episode 19 with energy economist Andreas Löschel
Episode 18 with energy researcher Volker Quaschning
Episode 17 with GermanZero managing director Julian Zuber
Episode 16 with China researcher Nis Grünberg
Episode 15 with Pauline Brünger, spokeswoman for Fridays for Future
Episode 14 with environmental medicine specialist Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann and author Katja Trippel
Episode 13 with Mareike Menneckemeyer from the Climate Citizens Council
Episode 12 with polar explorer Markus Rex
Episode 11 with the energy expert Patrick Graichen
Episode 10 with the forest expert Ulrich Schraml
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