Stuttgart (dpa/lsw) - According to the CDU environmental expert Raimund Haser, the multi-billion dollar conversion in the fight against climate change does not have to be paid for entirely from the state budget. "The economy has a great interest in investing, in the expansion of renewable energies and the application of new technologies," he told the "Badisches Tagblatt" and the "Badische Latest News" (Monday). "It doesn't have to be financed with state money at all."
The tender for wind power in the state forest is a very good example of how things could be done differently, Haser told the newspapers. "It doesn't cost us anything, we earn money with it." Climate protection does not always have to burden the state budget. The state spokesman for environmental policy for the CDU parliamentary group in the state parliament also warned that the state would not be able to refurbish all major universities, such as those in Karlsruhe or Konstanz, by 2030. "We have to talk to the Greens about that too."
Haser announced a package on the climate protection law that the CDU wants to discuss with the green coalition partner in the next two weeks. "This will provide very concrete new content," he said. But he did not give any details.
The southwest wants to be the first federal state to include targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions for all areas in the Climate Protection Act. The country aims to become climate-neutral by 2040. Previously, 90 percent by 2050 was the goal. Climate neutrality means that only as many greenhouse gases may be emitted as can be bound again.
