Expectations for climate protection were heaped onto 2020. The Paris Climate Convention means that Germany and its fellow signatories must sign up for higher climate targets before the year end.
The EU's Green Deal, a package of pro-climate measures, is on the drawing board.
Against this backdrop, there were hopes that the Germany's rotating council presidency would turn into a "climate presidency".
But national and internati...
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Jess Smee is a Berlin-based journalist who writes for The Guardian among others and is an editor of SGI News and the Bertelsmann Stiftung's BTI blog.