The far right just made huge gains in Germany, once seen as a climate champion. It’s a pattern happening across the world
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The far right just made huge gains in Germany, once seen as a climate champion. It’s a pattern happening across the world

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CNN — Germany was once seen as a climate champion. “There’s a far right that is attacking the climate agenda in every country,” said Luisa Neubauer, a climate activist from Fridays for Future Germany. The CDU has said it will abide by Germany’s climate targets but In a speech at the end of the election campaign, CDU leader Friedrich Merz said he stood “for the majority who can think straight and who are still in their right minds,” and not, “for any green or left-wing nutcases.” The most likely outcome of the election is a coalition between the CDU and the center-left SPD, with the Green party sidelined from government. This coalition is “unlikely to take the bold climate action we need,” said Heffa Schuecking, director of Urgewald, an environmental non-profit. The AfD was successful in portraying climate measures “as elite-driven and disconnected from the concerns of ordinary citizens,” the ISD’s Matlach said.

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