The goal is clear: The municipality of Peiting must also do everything to become climate neutral, demand the Greens.
When asked about the status quo, it becomes clear that there is currently no overall concept in sight.
When it comes to climate protection managers, the last word may not have been said yet.
Peiting
- It was at the end of the penultimate municipal council meeting when the Greens parliamentary group spokesman Günter Franz presented Mayor Peter Ostenrieder with a whole catalog of questions on the subject of climate protection in the municipality. The answers should provide information about where the market is currently on the way to its own climate neutrality.
The result that the community has now sent is quite sobering from the perspective of the Greens. It starts with the fact that there is a lack of data to be able to say how much greenhouse gas is actually emitted annually in Peiting. Let alone broken down into buildings and heat, industry, traffic and agriculture, as the Greens had wanted a list. In order to be able to answer this, external help is necessary, the community announced. According to the Oberland energy transition, the costs for this would amount to around 2400 euros. The municipality points out that data on agriculture cannot be obtained in this way either. The heating oil purchase required for the calculation could only be determined imprecisely, since only local suppliers would be asked for.
When it comes to the question of how much greenhouse gases Peiting is still allowed to emit so that the 1.5 degree limit is adhered to, the municipality says there is a lack of relevant data.
Here, too, inquiries have been made with the Oberland energy transition.
The result: the question can hardly be answered with validity.
Augsburg is cited as an example, which has calculated a remaining CO2 budget of 9.7 million tons based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and in relation to the world population.
Applied to Peiting, this would result in a residual volume of 373,000 tonnes of CO2 for the market community.
"Whether this number is valid, however, has to be questioned critically."
Greenhouse gas reduction plan not currently on the agenda
In their inquiry, the Greens also wanted to know whether the administration already had a plan on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next few years, or whether such a plan was at least in the pipeline. The community denies both. Instead, she refers to the district's climate protection concept and to the fact that Peiting has been considering drawing up an energy use plan for a long time.
According to the administration, this should create an overarching overall concept for the energetic development of the community and thus promote the efficient use of possible energy potentials as well as provide the basis for decisions about energy-saving renovation measures or alternative energy supply concepts. The problem: “Unfortunately, due to insufficient human resources in the market building department, implementation has not yet been implemented.” However, “climate-friendly individual measures” have already been taken several times in the past.
This also answered the Greens' question about the human resources needed to draw up a greenhouse gas reduction plan.
Unsurprisingly, the administration announced that the current construction work is more than busy.
In addition, it is currently "extremely difficult to find suitable employees in technical professions" for the market.
Greens prepare application for local council
The issue is therefore not settled for the Peitinger Greens. In their opinion, the responses from the administration are too unsatisfactory. Franz announced in an interview with the local newspaper that they are currently working on a comprehensive proposal that will be submitted to the local council in the near future. In view of the tight staffing situation, the question could be raised again whether Peiting should not hire a climate protection manager after all. Behind closed doors, the body had spoken out against it by a majority. "But that was just a picture of the mood," remembers Franz. It may well be that his parliamentary group will bring the issue to the public meeting again for a vote.
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