Sunny prospects for 2025
With good news from the previous year, 2025 got off to a good start: Last year, over a million new solar systems were installed in Germany, similar to 2023. In this country, the national climate protection target for 2024 was achieved, but the EU target was slightly missed.
The expansion of solar and wind energy is progressing faster than expected. According to the think tank Agora Energiewende, greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 48 per cent compared to 1990. Emissions have fallen for the third year in a row. In 2024, revenues from emissions trading reached record levels, which benefits climate protection.
This positive development in climate protection is leading to a global solar revolution, because in many countries the development of renewable energies is progressing just as positively as in Germany, mainly in the most populous countries such as China and India.
Problem areas remain transport and buildings. But in terms of electricity, more than half of Germany’s energy is already produced from renewable sources. By 2045, Germany wants to be climate-neutral. This means: not emitting more greenhouse gases than can be stored again.
The motto for 2025 could be ‘Citizens to the sun, to freedom’. Because the switch to renewable energies brings only advantages: it is inexpensive, protects the climate and the environment, makes us independent and, above all, brings huge benefits for the poor, because solar power is increasingly becoming social power.
A solar energy economy is the prerequisite for a peace treaty between humanity and nature. Climate policy is economic policy. With the help of a global solar policy, life on Earth can flourish again.
Every child born today should be able to say in 20 years:
- I was born at the dawn of the solar world revolution
- I have seen the beginning of the solar age
- I know that the sun wins
- This gives my life purpose and meaning.
C. G. Jung writes about the meaning of life: ‘The decisive question for man is: Are you related to the infinite or not? That is the criterion of his life.’ (C. G. Jung: Memories, Dreams, Thoughts, Patmos. 2024, page 354)
For me, climate protection is love for one’s neighbour, love for the most distant, love for one’s grandchildren, love for one’s enemies, love for animals, love for nature and love for God all rolled into one. What is important is that we do not end our lives empty-handed.
This is how we pave the way for a new era of humanity. The future belongs to the brave. The most important thing is to look at the world of the future with sunny optimism.
