Money makes the world go around so:

The 2018 drought cost farmers in germany approximately 2 billion euros -> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-08/germany-f...

ground water levels are at an all time low due to very little rain: 2018 was especially problematic.

https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/how-climate-chang...

forrests are dying at an alarming rate https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/07/part-of-...

I wouldn't say germany is a climate change hotspot but the effects are already here. Politics just hasn't caught up with reality yet.