Sectorial Climate Policy Targets in Germany: Recent Developments and Opportunities
摘要
In April 2024, Germany enacted a new law that deviated from its previous policy of formulating sectorial climate targets for individual policy areas. The primary rationale for this decision was the failure to achieve the targets set for the transport sector for an extended period of time. Achieving quite ambitious targets for the transport sector would have resulted in immediate measures, such as driving bans. This chapter examines the question of sectorial differentiation of policy objectives using three representative examples: (1) the targets for designating areas for wind energy; (2) the quantitative target of new housing development; and (3) the 30-hectare land-saving target. It is evident that there are differences between the policy fields in terms of the disaggregation of targets, which also depends on the political context. The question of whether disaggregating targets is an effective approach to achieve them better in a scientific view cannot be answered with certainty. At the end, this can be viewed as a question that is associated with a political risk.