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A CO鈧� price can be a useful building block of a package of climate action measures in Germany provided that it does not put an additional burden on citizens, said Social Democratic Party (SPD) head Andrea Nahles at an聽聽organised by the SPD鈥檚 parliamentary group in the Bundestag. 鈥淎 CO鈧� price is socially fair if it returns the revenues to the citizens and does not put an additional burden on certain groups, such as commuters and tenants,鈥� said Nahles. The 鈥渂asic approach鈥� must be not to raise taxes but to create fair incentives. Nahles called 2019 a decisive year for climate action. She said her coalition partner, Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance, 鈥渟ometimes lacks the necessary seriousness鈥� when it comes to climate action. 鈥淎KK [CDU party head Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer] stifles the CO鈧� price debate before it begins. [Transport minister Andreas] Scheuer deals with climate policy as if it was a computer game: somehow dodge the obstacles.鈥� Nahles also called for a fundamental reform of Germany鈥檚 system of energy levies to make renewable power cheaper than fossil energy. 鈥淭his is a huge task,鈥� said Nahles.

Some SPD members have said聽that climate policy could become a make-or-break issue for the entire government coalition in autumn 2019. Due to heavy resistance from within the party to joining a coalition with the conservative CDU/CSU alliance after Germany's last general elections in 2017, the SPD leaders promised to hold a "midterm review" and decide whether to continue with the coalition. No official date or form has yet been set for the review, but it is likely to be held two years after the election, in autumn 2019. The CDU聽 intends to review the coalition agreement.