Green light for climate protection law

After more than ten years at Kretschmann, the south-west is still far from where the Greens actually want to be when it comes to expanding renewable energies.

Now the pace should be increased.

Stuttgart - House builders still have seven months to prepare for it: If you want to build a new house, you have to have a solar system installed on your roof from May 1st next year. This is provided for by the new climate protection law, which was passed in the state parliament on Wednesday in Stuttgart. In addition to the coalition of the Greens and CDU, the SPD also voted in favor, the FDP and AfD voted against. The law also stipulates that from January 1, 2023, homeowners must have a photovoltaic system installed for a fundamental roof renovation. It is the first major law project by Grün-Schwarz in this electoral term. FDP and AfD criticized the solar obligation is unsocial and will make building and living more expensive.

The law also includes more ambitious targets for reducing climate-damaging greenhouse gases. The country is to become climate neutral by 2040 - up to now 90 percent was the goal by 2050. The state wants to be five years faster than the federal government and by then only emit as many greenhouse gases as can be bound again. Grün-Schwarz also wants to significantly expand wind power, with which Baden-Württemberg has made little progress recently. After environmental experts questioned at a hearing that the government's planned measures would be sufficient to achieve the climate goals, the parliamentary groups of the Greens and CDU stepped up again.

The Climate Protection Act stipulates that two percent of the area for wind energy and photovoltaics should be specified in the regional plans.

Environmental associations had called for an increase to at least three percent in order to be able to cover future energy requirements.

Environment Minister Thekla Walker (Greens) said: “We need areas, areas, areas.

We need at least two percent to ensure the supply. ”Many companies that wanted to invest here often asked whether there was enough green energy in the country.

Renewable energies are also a location factor.

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"The two percent area target for wind and photovoltaics is too low," said BUND state chairman Sylvia Pilarsky-Grosch on Monday at the public hearing in the committee for the environment, climate and energy management in the state parliament in Stuttgart.

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The Green parliamentary group has called for the new black-red-yellow state government to be more committed to climate protection and sees considerable job opportunities for Saxony-Anhalt in this.

The country should become climate neutral by 2035, said the Greens parliamentary group leader Cornelia Lüddemann on Friday in the state parliament.

There must be binding interim targets for the years 2025 and 2030.

Greens are calling for more renewable energies to be expanded

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Shortly before the federal election, the utility EnBW called for a faster expansion of renewable energy in order to achieve the climate targets.

If you want to create the necessary expansion of wind turbines on land and at sea as well as solar systems in Germany, you have to at least triple the pace, said EnBW boss Frank Mastiaux the "Handelsblatt" in an interview published on Monday.

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On behalf of the CDU, Raimund Haser said about the area targets: “Let's start first.

We shouldn't take the second step before the first. ”But be clear: You have to do a lot more than what the law says now.

The FDP MP Frank Bonath said that many house builders could not afford a solar system.

In addition, the solar obligation is a "bureaucracy building program" because there are so many regulations.

“There is no need for a state dirigism.

Our country can do a lot if you let it. "

The AfD MP Joachim Steyer, a gas and water plumber by profession, said: “I know what distinguishes a house from a castle in the air.” It is wrong to promote wind power in the southwest, where the wind is much stronger in the north.

The AfD is convinced that you cannot do without nuclear power.

The Greens, CDU and SPD agreed to a resolution by the coalition groups that the country should set a good example with its own buildings. Grün-Schwarz presented its own catalog of requirements with seven points, with which the state administration should reduce its emissions of climate-damaging carbon dioxide more quickly. According to this, the state administration with its approximately 8,000 buildings should be “net greenhouse gas neutral” by 2030.

Green parliamentary group leader Andreas Schwarz told the dpa: "In the case of new administrative buildings, the so-called plus energy standard will in future be the measure of all things." This means that the buildings should have a positive energy balance. In addition, the parliamentary groups are urging that all suitable roof areas on state buildings should be equipped with photovoltaic systems by 2030 at the latest. In addition, all state-owned buildings are to be converted to a climate-neutral heat supply as soon as possible.

The SPD MP Gernot Gruber held against Grün-Schwarz for having slept here for a long time.

Only 170 state buildings have a solar roof, last year only 12 were added.

There is a lot of catching up to do here, which the CDU in particular has not seen for a long time.

CDU parliamentary group leader Manuel Hagel now said: “We want the country to lead the way as a role model.

If citizens do more and more to protect our climate, the country has to make a bigger contribution here. ”Dpa