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Germany plays a central role at the UN climate summit COP24 because it wants to show that ambitious climate protection offers big opportunities for new and sustainable jobs, according to environment minister Svenja Schulze and the head of the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB), Reiner Hoffmann. The country鈥檚 coal commission will be the litmus test for this approach, Schulze and Hoffmann write in a guest article published in the Tagesspiegel. They argue that a 鈥渏ust transition鈥� requires active policy because market forces alone will not do the trick, and that the transport, buildings and agriculture sectors need a consistent CO2聽price signal. They add that a CO2聽price must not have 鈥渘egative effects on small and medium income groups鈥� or 鈥減lace an unjust burden on commuters or renters.鈥澛犅犅�

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Find background in the article聽Fear of public backlash and complexity hold back German CO2聽price.