Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - Hesse's state government received clear criticism for its planned climate law on Wednesday in the state parliament. "This law would be a disaster for climate protection," said Petra Heimer, a left-wing MP in Wiesbaden. The draft shifts risks in the future to the next generation. Heimer complained that there were no reduction targets for industry, transport, buildings and agriculture in the law. "Therefore, they are neither binding nor enforceable."
The state government is also completely refraining from issuing its own regulations such as the obligation to use residual heat or a solar obligation, criticized Heimer. The SPD MP Gernot Grumbach also warned that binding, if necessary enforceable, requirements are important. "Otherwise it won't work with climate protection."
The FDP parliamentary group leader René Rock said that the state government had copied the goals already formulated at the federal level, "but had not shown any ways in which CO2 emissions could be reduced". Black and green are making themselves look ridiculous with a law according to which a plan for the energetic renovation of the state buildings to climate neutrality must be submitted by 2026, which must then be implemented from 2028. "The country has to lead by example and act faster," said Rock.
With the climate law, the state government wants to gradually reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Hesse to zero by 2045. "The last hot and dry years have shown us that further steps are necessary to combat the climate crisis," said Environment Minister Priska Hinz (Greens) in the state parliament.
All laws, regulations and major funding programs of the state government are to be checked by means of a climate check to see whether they can be optimized with a view to the climate goals. A scientific climate advisory board is to monitor the path to reduction and advise the state government.
