The building sector has just cleared another hurdle.
In the past year, too, this area caused more greenhouse gas emissions in Germany than specified.
Instead of tinkering with the real estate market in the short term, politicians should already be concentrating on how houses and apartments can become free of fossil fuels in the long term.
Due to the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, the change must also fit in with the fact that Europe wants to break away from Russian energy supplies as quickly as possible.
Every second apartment in this country is heated with gas and every fourth apartment with heating oil, which too often comes from Russia.
In view of the general weather situation, it sounds absurd that the German state is still promoting gas heating in combination with renewable energies under certain conditions.
Better this end today than tomorrow.
If the path to fewer emissions leads to the electrification of the heating market, the state's share of the electricity price should decrease.
Until climate neutrality in 2045 and the milestone of 2030, it all sounds a long way away.
But new buildings, renovations and heating changes only have a slow effect.
The foundation for the distant climate goals will therefore be laid in the next few years - especially in the real estate sector.