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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…

Technical innovations are crucial on the road to climate neutrality: However, young companies in the field of climate protection still have difficulties in Germany in financing their innovative solutions. Especially in the early stages after startup, many climate tech startups lack capital, especially for investment-intensive innovations such as hardware-based climate technologies in sectors like power…

The German basic materials industry (steel production and processing, cement production, and production of basic chemicals) emits large quantities of greenhouse gases. Although various innovative technologies are ready to decarbonize production processes, the current market environment hardly allows investments in these technologies. At the same time, due to long investment cycles and path dependencies, these…