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Green chief Robert Habeck: "We consider 70 percent CO₂ savings to be necessary by 2030"
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The Petersberg Climate Dialogue is entering the final phase: the focus of the digital consultations by around 40 specialist ministers from all over the world is the implementation of the Paris Climate Protection Agreement of 2015. The Greens are now calling on the German government to double investments in climate protection.
Eight billion euros by 2025 - "that would be the least" that Chancellor Angela Merkel should announce in her statement in the afternoon, said Green Group Vice Oliver Krischer to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
Since the Federal Constitutional Court declared parts of the German Climate Protection Act to be unconstitutional, the Union and the SPD have had to agree on specific requirements.
According to this, Germany should become climate neutral by 2045 instead of 2050 - i.e. only emit as much greenhouse gas as can be bound again.
On the way there should be new intermediate goals, including a greenhouse gas reduction of 65 instead of 55 percent by 2030. To date, these emissions have fallen by 40 percent compared to 1990.
The change in the climate law should be passed in the cabinet in the coming week.
Habeck: "It's good that the coalition is now moving"
"It is good that the coalition is moving now," said Greens chief Robert Habeck to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
However, the government plans are not sufficient.
"Our figures are a tad more ambitious: We consider 70 percent CO₂ savings to be necessary by 2030," says Habeck.
He called on the government to back up the new climate goals with concrete measures: specifically with a rapid expansion of renewable energies, a reduction in environmentally harmful subsidies and a higher price for the emission of climate-damaging carbon dioxide (CO₂).
Specifically, the party chairman called for a consistent and rapid expansion of renewable energies, a reduction in environmentally harmful subsidies and a higher CO₂ price.
"These are things that should be decided at the same time, the government is measured by them," said Habeck.
In its ruling last week, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the German Climate Protection Act lacks sufficient requirements for reducing CO₂ emissions from 2031.
According to the Karlsruhe judges, the law is partly unconstitutional because burdens are postponed until after 2030 and the younger generation's freedom rights would be violated.
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