FILE PHOTO: Members of the Fridays For Future pose with placards depicting the top candidates for Germany’s snap election, Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union party CDU, Robert Habeck of the Greens party and Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party SPD, in front of the SPD headquarters in Berlin, Germany, December 17, 2024. The placards read: “CDU – Yes to climate targets no to meeting them”, Greens’ “gas exit – a task not a plan” and SPD’s “Climate Chancellor – is not really our thing”. REUTERS/Tobias Schlie/File Photo