Unlocking Germany’s Heat Transition
How can Germany decarbonise buildings without overburdening households?
Climate & Energy Policy
Delivering on Europe’s 2030 climate target by putting in place financing mechanisms that enable large-scale investments in energy infrastructures and security while dampening costs.
How can Germany decarbonise buildings without overburdening households?
Raising energy prices hardly changes how much households heat or cool. It mostly just makes them poorer.
Can Europe grow by going green? The data say yes.
Can Germany expand its power grids without driving up electricity prices?
Why does Germany make rail users pay profits to the state for using public tracks?
Can Europe still finance the twin transition if only defence spending gets fiscal room?
Neither austerity nor unchecked borrowing can make the transition sustainable. Balance is the only path.
How can Europe reduce dependence and volatility while avoiding new core–periphery divides?
Can Europe’s public banks move from correcting markets to creating them?
Will Europe’s green transition narrow divides or deepen them?
Fifty instruments, one challenge: financing Europe’s next economic model.
Can Europe turn wartime relief into long-term resilience?
How can the Netherlands stop protecting yesterday’s industries and start planning for tomorrow’s?
Can Europe give climate goals the same force as fiscal rules?
Europe’s path to clean energy runs through China’s factories. Can policy close the gap?
Against fossiflation, can clean energy become Europe’s new anchor of price stability?
Can policy move faster than the Earth’s feedback loops?
Decisions about new reactors should follow evidence, not precede it.