Now it's getting serious: Within seven years, the emission of climate-damaging carbon dioxide in the south-west is to be significantly reduced. That means, among other things: more electric cars, less meat and more wind turbines.
Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - It was a difficult birth: After weeks of negotiations, the leaders of the coalition of Greens and CDU have agreed on the draft for the new climate protection law. The CDU parliamentary group had already unanimously approved the paper on Wednesday at their meeting in Freudenstadt, said a spokesman for the German Press Agency on request. The Greens want to deal with the compromise this Thursday at their closed conference in Berlin. A parliamentary group spokesman told the dpa: "We are ticking the climate protection law."
With the amendment, Baden-Württemberg wants to be the first federal state to enshrine concrete targets for the reduction of greenhouse gases in different areas in law. According to dpa information, the Greens and CDU adopted the benchmarks that resulted from a report commissioned by the Ministry of the Environment: According to this, agriculture must reduce emissions by 39 percent by 2030 compared to 1990 - the energy industry by 75 percent, industry by 62 percent, the transport by 55 percent and the building sector by 49 percent.
The CDU environmental politician Raimund Haser told the dpa that it was a "acceptable compromise" after intensive weeks of negotiations. He added: "The current further development strengthens and substantiates the climate goals without overburdening private individuals and companies in view of the already great challenges. We don't oblige, we take it upon ourselves and are finally breaking new ground in terms of technology." At first he did not want to say anything about the details of the compromise.
One thing is clear: as an interim goal, the government wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 65 percent by 2030 compared to 1990. The country is set to become carbon neutral by 2040. Climate neutrality means that only as many greenhouse gases may be emitted as can be bound again.
Most recently, Environment Minister Thekla Walker (Greens) called for more speed and commitment to climate protection from society. For example, renewable energies would have to be expanded significantly in order to achieve the goals that we had set ourselves. In the agricultural sector, a reduction in the number of livestock and less meat consumption are key levers for reducing emissions.
