Our climate action strategy is designed to provide substantial guidance for the process needed to achieve the climate targets. It is a strategy that aims to modernise our economy, and one of its main features is that it neither focuses on nor rules out any particular technology. It is a strategy that is designed to promote and develop new technologies, in the field of renewable energy, for example, and to increase energy efficiency. This is a way of conserving resources and using them more efficiently and at the same time improving the performance and competitiveness of our economy and its businesses. To make sure this transition towards a largely greenhouse gas-neutral society in the next decades becomes a success story, not only for climate policy but also for economic policy, we need to take a broader view. National, European and international climate targets are at the centre of the climate action strategy. This strategy must also take economic and social concerns into account: economic concerns because ultimately only economic success will make climate action an attractive proposition worldwide, and social concerns because one of the principles of climate action on a national as well as international level is that "strong shoulders must carry more than weaker ones." Climate action will only enjoy the broad social acceptance it needs in Germany if economic success and social balance are achieved. This will make the modernisation of our economy a beacon of success. Here again, guidance can be found in Agenda 2030: its 17 goals reflect all three dimensions of sustainability equally. Climate action is thus tantamount to increased economic performance and competitiveness. Decarbonisation means restructuring industry; it does not mean deindustrialisation. On the contrary: only if highly industrialised countries such as Germany provide living proof that meeting national climate targets does not have a negative impact on a country's economic and industrial success will other countries follow our lead.