Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE)
2026
Öko-Institut, Fraunhofer ISI, ifeu, IREES, GWS, Prof. Dr. Stefan Klinski (HWR Berlin)
How effective are the measures proposed by Germany’s federal ministries for the 2026 Climate Protection Programme?
Prognos and its partners examined the plausibility of the planned climate protection measures and analysed their climate impact. We assessed only the measures proposed by the ministries, not a comprehensive, cross-ministerial climate protection programme.
The assessment takes the form of an ex-ante evaluation of individual measures compared to a reference scenario without measures – based on the “with measures” scenario (MMS) from the 2025 Projection Report. The data used consists exclusively of information provided by the ministries from mid-September 2025 onwards.
Impact assessment (PDF, in German)
Further information on the climate protection programme (BMWE website, in German)
Project team: Elias Althoff, Alex Auf der Maur, Hannah Bethge, Hans Dambeck, Nora Langreder, Dominik Rau, Nils Thamling, Friedrich Seefeldt, Dr Alexander Piegsa, Aurel Wünsch, Marco Wünsch, Inka Ziegenhagen
Last update: 25.03.2026
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