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Germany鈥檚 pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) is putting a market-centered approach to climate policy at the heart of its federal election campaign. The party is calling for a strict CO2 budget, which would be achieved through 鈥渁 comprehensive emissions trading system鈥� according to the presented on Sunday. The EU emission trading system should be extended to all sectors and across countries as quickly as possible in order to achieve climate protection "in a market-based and scientifically secure manner," the party writes. The Free Democrats largely reject government regulations as a means of achieving climate goals, and oppose speed limits, driving bans and a ban on combustion engines. Instead, the party wants to use the 鈥渋nventive spirit of scientists, technicians and engineers鈥� to combat climate change as well as invest in the digitalisation of the energy transition. The party programme also proposes a sort of 鈥渃limate dividend鈥�, whereby revenues from CO2 pricing are paid out directly to citizens.

According to a recent survey, two thirds of Germans want to see significant political changes and more than 60 percent are in favour of a comprehensive change of government, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung . Of the more than 1000 people surveyed, over 55 percent say changes in environmental and climate protection policy are most important.聽

Germany will head to the ballot box to elect a new federal parliament on 26 September,聽deciding which party will lead the next coalition government and therefore shape the country鈥檚 climate and energy policy. The Green Party has been leading national polls in recent days, surpassing the conservative CDU/CSU bloc and being trailed in third place by the SPD. The Free Democrats at around ten percent.