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Caritas calls for a socially acceptable climate policy

2021-10-14T14:15:11.481Z


The Catholic Caritas Association is concerned about the poor and needy in view of the pace of government formation. The outgoing President Peter Neher said on Thursday in Freiburg that he is concerned that people with low incomes or problems on the job market, those in need of care and carers as well as people on the run will be neglected or completely forgotten in the search for compromises.


The Catholic Caritas Association is concerned about the poor and needy in view of the pace of government formation.

The outgoing President Peter Neher said on Thursday in Freiburg that he is concerned that people with low incomes or problems on the job market, those in need of care and carers as well as people on the run will be neglected or completely forgotten in the search for compromises.

Freiburg - Especially when it comes to climate change, socially fair politics are important.

Only if the climate change is socially acceptable will it find support, said Neher's newly elected successor Eva Welskop-Deffaa.

Caritas, for example, calls for higher CO2 pricing with options for reimbursement.

"Otherwise those who have little income are particularly affected," said Neher.

The upper middle and upper classes also benefited from e-mobility.

For poor people there should be free offers in local public transport or so-called 365-euro tickets.

In the case of energetic renovation, subsidies could be linked to the rental price, so that less government money would flow in the case of higher rents, said Neher.

He described the company car privilege as out of date.

“It promotes social division.” In addition, it costs a lot of money and is socially and ecologically wrong.

These measures could be put in place quickly by the new government, he said.

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CSU General Secretary: Greens are only pushing climate protection

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After 18 years, Prelate Neher is leaving the head of the largest welfare organization in Germany. At a three-day meeting on Wednesday, the delegates elected the previous head of social and specialist policy in the Caritas Association, Welskop-Deffaa, as their successor. She was the first woman to head a large charity, said Welskop-Deffaa - and saw this as a sign of change. “We have to shape national and international solidarity together,” she demanded. That ranges from vaccination to climate protection.

According to its own information, Caritas employs more than 693,000 people in over 25,000 institutions and services nationwide.

Hundreds of thousands of volunteers and volunteers support the work.

The association has offers, among other things, in health care, child and youth welfare, elderly care, family support, as well as in support for the disabled and psychiatry.

dpa

Source: merkur

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