When Trump resigned from the Paris Agreement on June 1, 2017, people in the US and all over the world were shocked by the decision which they considered to be short-sighted and irresponsible. When the Paris Climate Agreement was negotiated in December 2015 and eventually signed in April 2016, it was celebrated as a huge […]
Following the Paris Agreement, climate commitments must be backed up by concrete action. Meeting the obligations under the Agreement will require effective and innovative policy solutions and transformation in the energy sector and beyond. The US and Germany, as climate leaders and policy pioneers, are at the forefront of these efforts and should expand cooperation […]
Following the Paris Agreement, global climate protection must focus on translating commitments into concrete action. The US and Germany, as climate leaders, must be at the forefront of these efforts. As both countries, and indeed all countries, undertake energy transition, climate policy requires cooperative leadership and is an opportunity to broaden the relationship between federal, […]
As the forces of globalization spin the world faster the formerly centripetal force exerted by transatlanticism is now itself being pulled apart. Emerging powers in Asia are creating new centers of gravity, and a paradigm shift in transatlantic relations is needed to balance them. Energy must be the new fulcrum on which transatlantic relations rest […]