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Sep 15, 2023

Pfluger quoted in The Telegraph on Europe’s Green Deal
Energy & Environment Energy Transitions
Protesters in Germany hold a sign reading "Save the energy transition! Sun and wind instead of fracking, coal and nuclear!"

EnergySource

Aug 9, 2023

The IRA challenges the European climate model

By Friedbert Pflüger

Europeans are starting to realize their leadership in the energy transition is not as secure as previously believed. They are seeing the profound competition posed by the IRA—and the economic forces it unleashes.

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment

EnergySource

Feb 10, 2021

A paradigm shift under President Joe Biden: From “energy dominance” towards climate cooperation

By Friedbert Pflüger

The US return to the Paris Agreement and the appointment of John Kerry as the new US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate indicate a new paradigm: international energy and climate cooperation is back on the agenda. While there may be challenges to achieving broader goals, hopes are up for a transatlantic New Energy Deal between the United States and the EU in light of new policy substance with ambitious climate targets, and a new tone.

Climate Change & Climate Action Energy & Environment
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Friedbert Pflüger is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center. He is partner and managing director of the Clean Energy Forum Foundation (CEF), founding partner of Strategic Minds Company GmbH (SMC), Berlin, and the director of the European Centre for Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS) at the University of Bonn. From 1990 to 2006 he was a member of the German Bundestag and served as deputy minister of defense in the first Merkel cabinet from 2005 to 2006. He regularly publishes on topics dealing with energy and climate policy.