This formidable bundle of policies steers countries to build renewable energy resources, find ways to improve energy efficiency and significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions in the process. But now, the Green Deal is in peril as a school of thought that frames the green transition as an elitist plot against ordinary people gains followers in Europe.
The hard-right Alternative for Germany, alongside the Christian Democrats, impugned the Greens' impoverishment program as a heating massacre that would force Germans to sell their houses. The cacophony was no doubt music to the ears of Germany's gas lobby, which is worried about new subsidies and rules to encourage a switch from gas heat and air conditioning to heat pumps that may eventually make the gas grid unnecessary.
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