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"Within this thesis, the goal was to find out more about the European climate politics and especially the new Green Deal. European Climate politics have a long history of continual promises and new premises towards the actual commitment. With the new policy initiative by the European Commission in 2019, the European call for a revision of established climate law across all governmental levels of Europe has been started. This call is also accompanied by Member States´ own climate policies and their interpretation of the European guidelines. In this case, the Green Deal´s initial policy, the COM (2019) 640 final, and some of its extents are being compared to the German Climate Change Act (2019 and 2021). The European climate policies are a highly complex field of topics, into which multiple legal implications need to be accounted for. Additionally, the literature on European climate policies and climate policies in general indicate a rising trend on bottom-up litigation efforts to hold European governments accountable. This trend could gain more momentum, given new European climate policies allow for more legal accountability by governments. The comparison tried to find evidence that could further indicate if the trend is able to gain more or less political salience in the future."