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The reform of the Climate Protection Act proposed by Environment Minister Svenja Schulze and Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz (both SPD) should be decided in the cabinet as early as next week.
"There is agreement in the government," said Schulze.
Scholz emphasized that the government was in intensive talks.
"We'll be in the cabinet next week with an ambitious climate protection law, but it is feasible," he said.
The key points must finally be agreed with the Union.
Shortly after the defeat at the Federal Constitutional Court, the federal government decided to improve climate protection. The Constitutional Court had classified the previous climate protection law as partially unconstitutional because it shifts burdens to the period after 2030 and thus curtails the freedom of the younger generation.
As SPIEGEL learned from government circles, a CO2 reduction of 65 percent is now being planned by 2030.
That would be ten percentage points more than previously planned.
By 2040, CO2 values are to be reduced by 85 to 90 percent, before Germany becomes climate neutral by 2045.
Such an intermediate goal had been missing so far - and had been criticized as one of the main points of criticism by the Constitutional Court of the previous climate protection law.
Climate neutrality means emitting only as many greenhouse gases as can be bound again.
The package stands for more fairness between generations and more planning security for the economy, for example, said Schulze.
mfh / dpa