For Germans heading to the polls for a snap election, climate is not quite as important a factor as it used to be.

Germans are going to the polls on Sunday for national elections. Opinion polls suggest the outcome will be a new chancellor and, likely, a new governing coalition.

In this weekend’s vote, Europe’s largest economic power faces a decision about whether to decisively re-enter history or continue its risky somnolence.

Environmental issues did not feature prominently the election campaign— unlike the last time around.When the coalition government comprising the center-left Social Democratic Party, Greens and neoliberal Free Democratic Party emerged after the last German federal election in the fall of 2021,