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In the past year, representatives of the German government met at least 22 times with members of the climate protection movement Fridays for Future.
This emerges from a query by WELT AM SONNTAG to the federal ministries.
The Ministry of the Environment, in particular, maintained contact with the activists.
Last year, for example, there were eleven personal conversations and discussion events with representatives from Fridays For Future, in which employees, state secretaries and Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD) personally took part.
In most cases, the focus was on exchanging ideas on specific political projects such as the federal government's climate package, the European CO reduction targets and the German EU Council Presidency.
The Federal Ministry of Economics confirmed three interviews.
Parliamentary State Secretary Thomas Bareiß (CDU) met twice with representatives of Fridays for Future to talk about climate protection, and once the sub-department head in the electricity division to exchange ideas about the Renewable Energy Sources Act.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) spoke to three activists in the summer of that year, including the German Luisa Neubauer and the Swede Greta Thunberg.
Chancellor Helge Braun (CDU) met six representatives from Fridays for Future Germany in October.
Maira Kellers, spokeswoman for Fridays for Future, sees the frequent meetings as an indication of having achieved a “discourse shift” in climate policy.
“Our government goes into the discourse.
That's good and that's important, ”said Kellers.
The 15-year-old criticizes, however, that the exchange often has no consequences.
"Sure, there are meetings like this, but what you really have to measure are the realpolitical decisions that have been made." The federal government has little to show there.
Reaching the 1.5 degree target will be so difficult.
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Source: Welt am Sonntag