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The current left leader Janine Wissler at a public parliamentary group meeting of the Hessian left in the Dannenröder forest (archive picture from September 2020)
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Janine Wissler and Dietmar Bartsch, top duo of the left for the federal election, want to score points with their party on climate protection.
One sees oneself as a representative of the "young climate protection movement" and the "financially weak", it says in a declaration, in which Lorenz Gösta Beutin also participated, climate protection spokesman for the parliamentary group.
That is why the left opposes higher CO2 prices.
"Practicing climate policy primarily through price increases divides society and is of little use to the climate because the higher earners, who contribute to higher CO2 emissions, can easily pay the higher prices," says the paper.
The left relies on regulatory law.
This includes a ban on internal combustion engines in cars from 2030 and 100 percent electricity from renewable energies by 2035.
Many climate goals are likely to be decided at the election program party conference in mid-June.
In the current draft of the left election program, the climate goals are in some cases much more ambitious than those of the Greens.
For the party congress, the climate activists in the party submitted another 33 amendments that are intended to further tighten the climate program.
Prohibition of car advertising, more bike paths
In the applications submitted to SPIEGEL, among other things, solar requirements for new buildings and a ban on car advertising are required. The number of vehicles is also to be reduced significantly: by 2030, the left wants to make at least half of all cars »superfluous«. Among other things, the expansion of railway lines and bicycle routes is to be increasingly promoted in rural areas. So-called containers should also no longer be illegal: supermarkets should make rejected goods accessible free of charge in the future.
In the party, the focus on climate policy is controversial.
While NRW top candidate Sahra Wagenknecht warns against concentrating too much on the issue, other members want to swear the party executive to an "offensive".
According to a draft resolution that SPIEGEL has received, the climate issue should not be left to the Greens.
In order to raise the profile, the initiators are calling for a separate board meeting only for the topic of climate justice, and candidates for the federal election should receive a climate policy guide.
At the next party congress, a separate speech on climate policy is to be given, "either by a climate activist or a person from the trade union spectrum who has been working on climate policy for a long time."
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