Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

Volume

136

Issue

4

Version

Author's Final Manuscript

Abstract

The climate crisis unfolded in real time during the 2021 Bundestag campaign, as western Germany experienced sudden, catastrophic flooding. The climate issue presented a varying and at times unexpected array of challenges and opportunities to the German political parties. In this article I will analyze the shifting role of climate change as it played out during the campaign, in the coalition discussions that followed, and in the first nine months of the new traffic light coalition government.

DOI

doi:10.3167/gps.2022.400401

Volume

136

Issue

4

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