Berlin: Climate Alliance calls for strengthening climate protection legislation

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Shortly before new global climate protests planned for Friday, an alliance of environmental groups and other organizations called on the federal government to strengthen the Climate Protection Act. The government must “finally take decisive action,” according to a statement published on Tuesday. Fridays for Future, Greenpeace, Deutsche Umwelthilfe and numerous other organizations are calling for strengthening the climate protection law “rather than abolishing it”.

The climate protection law must be revised according to the plans of the governing coalition. The Bundestag must discuss this now. Instead of tightening these, the government wants to abandon the currently binding annual sector targets for individual economic sectors.

The traffic light coalition wants to “undermine” the climate protection law, explained the federal director of German environmental aid, Jürgen Resch. “We are therefore fighting on the streets and in the courts for a strong climate protection law.” The legal changes should not exclude the transport sector from effective measures, criticized the director of the environmental organization BUND, Antje von Broock. “Our mobility in particular must use less energy, space and raw materials.” With more and more new highways and increasingly larger cars, this will not work.

In addition to strengthening the Climate Protection Act, the Climate Alliance is calling for a rapid exit from coal, gas and oil, “a fundamental shift in mobility” and the introduction of climate money to specifically help low-income people. Climate money, with which the income from CO2 pricing must flow back to citizens in the form of a premium per capita, is anchored in the coalition agreement of the traffic light parties. According to the federal government, it is currently investigating how such direct payments could be made possible.

According to the information, the alliance includes more than 140 organizations, associations and initiatives. They want to take to the streets on Friday for more climate protection. Demonstrations have been registered nationwide and larger gatherings will take place in Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne, among others.

(AFP)

Source: Blick