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Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer wants to “modernize and invest” - and thus protect the climate
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Extensive investments in local public transport, a faster expansion of renewable energies - and recently also a separate climate ministry, which should be able to stop legislative projects if they violate the goals of the Paris climate agreement.
With an "immediate climate protection program" the Greens want to emphasize their climate protection ambitions.
But in particular the planned climate ministry with the right to veto is not well received by the competition.
"In the distress of the election campaign, the Greens pull out all the stops on the prohibition organ," wrote FDP leader Christian Lindner on Twitter.
The green “immediate program” remains “tied to leftist notions of social restructuring”.
The FDP member of the Bundestag Olaf in der Beek wrote on Twitter of a green "prevention authority".
Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) criticized: "You cannot shape the future with a veto ministry." He referred to the coordination of departments within the federal government, in which all ministries are involved.
For more climate protection you have to "modernize and invest," said Scheuer.
On the other hand, he accused the Greens of "thinking about stopping and preventing".
North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) said during a visit to the flood-affected areas in North Rhine-Westphalia that the Climate Adaptation Act in force in his state was going "a bit in the direction" of the Greens' proposals.
Vice Chancellor and SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz, who visited the flood area together with Laschet, said the consequence of this disaster was: "We have to do everything we can to stop man-made climate change." Scholz had previously suffered around six billion euros in damage to the disaster area estimated.
The Green Party leaders Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck had taken up some of the existing demands from the Green election program with the joint presentation of the "immediate program".
In the event of government participation, the initiative provides for the accelerated expansion of wind and solar energy and an earlier phase-out of coal by 2030.
So far, the coal phase-out is planned for 2038 at the latest.
According to the party's plans, a "climate task force" of the federal government is to meet on a weekly basis for the first 100 days.
The lead for this should lie with the new climate protection ministry.
fek / AFP / dpa