When it comes to the energy transition and the reduction of CO2, Murnau is lagging behind its goals.
Now the local council wants to push the pace in order to achieve climate neutrality in the coming years.
A new working group is to develop a schedule and a catalog of measures.
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- The goals: super ambitious. Germany plans to increase the CO2 reduction from 55 to 65 percent by 2030. Climate neutrality is now planned for 2045. The Federal Government has thus reacted to a ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court and tightened the Climate Protection Act. What was decided at the top must also be implemented at the bottom, in the municipalities and by the citizens. Murnau has been working for several years to create the energy and climate change. So far, however, with relatively moderate success. The CO2 emissions did not decrease significantly between 2012 and 2018. In 2018, each Murnauer caused 7.4 tons of greenhouse gas. This emerges from a presentation by Philipp Zehnder, which the market's environmental and mobility officer presented to the local council.
His interpretation of the numbers: Above all, there was no reduction in final energy consumption, which was around 8,723 kilowatt hours per inhabitant in 2018.
The small reduction in emissions is mainly due to the improvement in the German electricity mix.
In plain language: Energy for households is increasingly being generated by wind power and solar modules, heating with crude oil is on the decline.
Heat production is still the main cause of greenhouse gases (GHG).
In 2018, it contributed 43 percent to the 89,795 tonnes of GHG emissions in Murnau.
Electricity accounted for 36 percent and traffic for 21 percent.
Murnau is in the "lowest category" for renewable energies
When it comes to renewable energies, Murnau Zehnder ranks in the “lowest category” with just 6.7 percent electricity. Other municipalities are much further along, mainly because they have better conditions. Zehnder named Kochel as an example. The village in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district is particularly privileged and generates 3500 percent of its energy from renewable sources. “The Walchensee power plant takes care of that,” says Zehnder.
There is a lot to do, let's get down to it, was the advertising slogan of an oil multinational in the 1970s. Murnau local politics has evidently made it a priority - across all parliamentary groups, whether conservative or ecological. Everyone sees a lot of room for improvement when it comes to climate protection. “We have a marathon ahead of us,” says Mayor Rolf Beuting (ÖDP / Bürgerforum). He speaks of "years and decades". You have to take the broader population with you on this path. "Our job is to do persuasion." Josef Raab (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) describes the results achieved so far as “modest. We need 100 percent renewable energy and have to produce it ourselves ”. CSU parliamentary group chairman Rudolf Utzschneider, a trained agricultural biologist, urges us to hurry:“We cannot wait 30 or 50 years. Something has to happen now. "
The working group met for the first time at the beginning of April
And something happens. Murnau pushes the pace, you want to pick up speed. The results that are available form the basis on which emissions are to be reduced. At the beginning of April, the newly established Energy and Climate Protection working group came together for the first time to develop a catalog of measures with time targets and cost estimates. It consists of members of the municipal council, representatives of the Bund Naturschutz, Murnau Mit einem and committed citizens. Four meetings are planned at regular intervals. In order to achieve a broad political consensus, environmental officer Zehner and town hall boss Beuting would like "all parliamentary groups to participate". This was apparently not the case at the premiere. Phillip Zoepf, head of the Mehr Bewegen faction, apparently felt quite lost,because colleagues from the eco-corner were represented in large numbers, while the other parties shone through their absence. "I was the only non-Green in the room."
