Energiesicherheit: Klimaschutz schafft Sicherheit.
Keynote von Jürgen Trittin zu „Energiepolitische Konzepte der neuen Bundesregierung und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Wirtschaft“ beim Gesprächskries nachhaltige Wirtschaft, Starnberg, 08.03.22
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Revolution: Wie das EEG half, die Welt auf den 1,5 Grad Pfad zu bringen
Rede vom 28. Juni 2021 im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung „Klima“ der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
In seiner Rede widmet sich Jürgen Trittin der Frage, was wir tun können um die Welt auf den 1,5°-Pfad zu bringen und vor allem, welcher Voraussetzungen es dafür bedarf.
Dabei spricht er über das deutsche Erneuerbare Energien Gesetz und wie es half, die Welt auf den 1,5° Pfad bringen zu können.
My Application for the Lower Saxony Regional List for the Federal Election
On the 26th of September, a historic federal election will take place. For the first time in the history of the German federal republic, an incumbent chancellor will not stand for re-election. For the first time, it will be Green versus Black. For the first time, with Annalena Baerbock, a Green candidate is running for the office of chancellor. In order to make this election a Green success, I would like to give my contribution and am thus running as a direct candidate for the constituency of Göttingen.
Europe Must Overcome Its Passivity
Changing Geostrategic Fault Lines in Energy Policy North-American self-sufficiency in oil and gas has fundamentally shifted the geostrategic status quo in energy policy. The war against Iraq was the last U.S.-war for access to oil resources. Strategic winner of that war in the region was Iran. Today, the ability to regulate prices is more important…
Common Interests in a Multipolar Disorder
The end of the Cold War didn‘t create a unilateral world. The disaster of Bush’s Iraq war showed an overstretched superpower.
The Great Disruption – No Natural Stragetic Partner in Sight
Seven years ago, in 2011, Henry Kissinger ended his book On China with a hope: “What … if the United States and China could merge their efforts not to shake the world but to build it.”
In his old days the realist Kissinger became an idealist.
Doughnut Economics – A well-rounded approach
Ms Raworth, Ms Bodewing, Thank you very much for your invitation to this interesting event and for the opportunity to say a few words. Your book is a plea to rethink economics. You make the case for consigning old economic theories to their proper place, to the history books of the 20th century. You are…
The Rise of Populism and Nationalism in Europe
Populists and nationalists are gaining ground not only – but all over Europe: in Italy, in Poland, in the Netherlands, in France, in Austria, in Finland, in Denmark, in Norway, in the UK, and in Germany.
Why is populism so successful? And why now?
America will pay for Trump’s laughable decision to ditch Paris Agreement
Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is one of the worst decisions ever for the United States. The U.S. stands isolated from the world with only Syria and Nicaragua to keep them company. My opinion piece for The Hill.
Discussion in Dublin: Elections in Germany and the Future of Europe
The future of Europe is open. But we have to reinstate the European core promises: Peace, Democracy, Prosperity There are many roads ahead. The national road is a dead end. The European road is bumpy and curvy. But you don’t have to turn back to a bloody history of wars which this continent has experienced for centuries.