Germany's climate conservatives give 'green' a patriotic rebrand

Germany's climate conservatives give 'green' a patriotic rebrand

Climate action was too important to exclude the part of German society appalled by activism, a CDU policymaker states.

Turning Green Is ‘Patriotic?’ CDU Says Yes

Following the German parliamentary elections in February, which pushed the Greens out of government, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has started embracing environmental issues in a way that would have seemed unlikely not so long ago..Rather than dismantling the green agenda, the CDU has chosen to adopt it, giving it a patriotic twist: climate protection is no longer presented as a global moral duty but as a national obligation.However, the …

The government is also concerned with the question of whether the external climate policy at the Federal Foreign Office remains. Under the ... The post From Greenpeace to the Federal Foreign Office: State Secretary for external climate policy hopes to remain under Merz appeared first on Apollo News.

Germany’s climate conservatives give ‘green’ a patriotic rebrand

Climate action was too important to exclude the part of German society appalled by activism, a CDU policymaker states.