Abstract Climate policy in Germany and Europe is based on assumptions that are no longer tenable under the new geopolitical, economic and technological conditions. Without a rethink, the EU risks jeopardising its own goals. This article shows how rising costs, intensified global technological competition and security challenges are changing the requirements for the energy transition. It is not the transformation goals that are in question, but the design of the transition pathway, which must be more strongly oriented towards efficiency, resilience and realistic development paths. To this end, security of supply, systemic coordination and pragmatic bridging solutions should be brought more firmly into the focus of political decision-making. Drawing on seven areas of action, the paper outlines how energy, economic and security policies can be better integrated to simultaneously strengthen climate protection, competitiveness and resilience.
Veronika Grimm (Fri,) studied this question.