Innovation policy for climate neutrality

Brief analysis of election programs for the 2021 federal election

Germany’s climate protection targets are playing an important role in this year’s federal election. The upcoming federal government faces major challenges to restructure the economy and promote climate-neutral technologies as an added value for climate protection. Within this framework, innovations and climate tech startups are important factors in achieving climate protection goals and strengthening Germany as an industrial location in the long term.

The Tech for Net Zero Allianz, which was launched by Breakthrough Energy and dena, has therefore published an election analysis on innovation policy and climate neutrality. Along the innovation cycle, with reference to the election programs of the political parties, central recommendations for action are made here for the coming federal government in order to create better structural framework conditions for innovative climate technologies to achieve climate neutrality in Germany.


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