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Germany's coal exit law, or the politics of inertia
Bill Hare, Gaurav Ganti
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Not even the bare minimum: unpacking Germany's 2030 climate package
Dr Robert Brecha, Bill Hare, Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
On 20 September, the German government released its long-awaited climate package. It is nowhere near ambitious enough to meet the objective of the Paris Agreement to limit warming to 1.5°C.
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Centred on science – how the IPCC can guide mitigation action
Dr Michiel Schaeffer, Dr Robert Brecha, Bill Hare
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A Green New Deal in the United States – fantasy or necessity?
Dr Robert Brecha
The Green New Deal (GND) is currently only in the form of a “resolution” introduced by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey; any actual legislation that results from the resolution will be taken up by the respective chambers of Congress – and likely will not be done as a whole package. Having said that, the GND is a rare example of proposing how to tackle a societal-scale set of challenges not by looking at individual components but by presenting a vision for the whole system.