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Vice Chancellor and Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
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In the winter of 2022, as gas supplies from Russia collapsed and German industry teetered on the brink of shutdown, he personally negotiated emergency LNG import deals with Qatar and the UAE—while simultaneously accelerating domestic wind turbine approvals by cutting permitting timelines from four years to six months. That dual maneuver—securing immediate energy stability without abandoning climate infrastructure—epitomizes his governing logic: climate action is not a constraint on economic policy but its structural precondition. His 2021 book 'Die Energiefrage' didn’t just diagnose Germany’s energy paradox; it laid out binding legal mechanisms—like the Renewable Energy Sources Act revision—to lock in 80% renewable electricity by 2030, even amid coal phaseout delays. He doesn’t speak of 'green growth' as metaphor but as measurable grid-load curves, steel decarbonization pathways, and hydrogen pipeline maps—tools calibrated for cabinet-level trade-offs, not campaign slogans.
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