Germany

“There will be no longer a North Stream Two. We will bring an end to it.”

“And while 90% of U.S. Homes have some kind of air conditioning, that number is only five percent in England, under five percent in France, and only three percent in Germany.”

“So right now we need to burn more coal, and this is why we have seen in many countries that coal is being brought back. I mean, in Germany, in Austria, in France, in the Netherlands, everywhere is being brought back because there is no other issue in the power…”

“And Germany was the Biggest producer of coal in the world behind the U.S. And Great Britain.”

“When Russia invaded Ukraine last year, Germany was getting more than half of its gas from Russia.”

“I would say if we had limited it to 20% in our relation to Russia of today, there would have been no leverage for Putin.”

“There was the strong conviction in Germany that the country needed Russian gas, and there was also the Illusion that Russian natural gas was politically, politically neutral.”

“Coal still makes up 60%, 66% of their power generation. In India, it's 74%, and even in Germany, where we always talk about them being leaders in Europe on climate, it's 30%.”

“Italy, Germany, Japan, Canada are all on track to do this.”

“Italy, Poland, and Germany have all seen, as we know, nationalists or populist parties challenge the ETS framework, in some cases directly as a response to the war in Iran.”