Recent federal elections in Norway and Germany saw entrenched conservative and neoliberal governments swept from power, replaced by an odd assortment of liberals, leftists, and Greens. In Norway, Europe’s largest oil and gas producer, a new ruling coalition has emerged between the social democratic Labour Party and agrarian Centre Party. In Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse and its largest energy consumer, Chancellor Angela Merkel has stepped down after nearly two decades in power, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) is now the largest party, and the Greens drew nearly 15% of the vote, gaining 51 seats in the Bundestag. In the wake of record-setting rain and flooding in Germany this summer, as well as near-record heatwaves in Nordic countries, tackling climate change was a major concern for voters in the recent German and Norwegian elections. With new coalitions in power, what hope is there that each country, and the European Union writ large, will take substantive steps to address the climate crisis?
In this interview, TRNN contributor David Kattenburg speaks with Jule Könneke and Rafael Loss about the recent European elections and what opportunities they present for Germany and Norway’s new coalition governments to take serious action. Jule Könneke is the former president of Polis180, a Berlin-based think tank on foreign and European affairs; she is also a climate diplomacy researcher at the German NGO E3G. Rafael Loss is the coordinator for pan-European data projects at the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Re:shape Global Europe project; he is also a co-author of the policy brief “Europe’s Green Moment: How to Meet the Climate Change Challenge.”
Post-Production: Adam Coley
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50 years of failed climate predictions
Wake up, corporations run the world, and they can careless about the environment.
I hope all the so called big wigs that are going to make it all better showed up in there lear jets what a joke want to know whats causing this farse reserch HARRP geo engenering and chem trailing , wake E wake E wake E
No they won’t. We need a whole new politics with whole new politicians.
The title itself is misleading. It's green capitalism at war with oil and old capitalism. Given that both sides ignore, less willing to talk about the biophysical reality of the world. Worse it's a war between green dollars and greta burgers 👎🏽🕳️😭
I am German. The German government is driven by the auto lobbyists and corrupted by the US empire. The Greens are pro-NATO and believe in green capitalist growth. Game over.
You move to the tunes played to you. Play the music the orchestrators direct.
Governments have been talking about climate change for years Now something must be done fast!
They're all nothing but globalists, please
If you do not understand that the sun controls the CO2 levels and ozone depletion then you don’t understand the cycles of the sun and how it affects our climate
I don`t think much will change. they all love to talk the talk, but rarely they walk the walk. But they all end up Millionaires, amazing about that.
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Free markets would fix any real and imaginary problems associated with pollution faster than any government or institution. There have been technologies available to do so for well over 100 years that have been suppressed by those very same claiming to have current "new" super expensive taxpayer paid solutions. Why are the space stations solar panels so much more efficient than the ones available to the public? One example of thousands. These conversations are not genuine or based in reality.
Things are looking bleak.
What a pathetic joke it is for you to assume there is a crisis in the first place that wasn't manufactured.