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In order to be able to achieve the German climate targets, a group of 29 CDU members of the Bundestag proposes an end to the subsidies for diesel and kerosene and an increase in the price of CO2.
This emerges from a joint paper entitled “Politics for a green zero”, which the broadcaster n-tv reported on Tuesday morning.
The occasion is the publication of the German climate footprint for 2020.
"We have come a lot closer to our climate goals, especially when it comes to reducing CO2 in industry and in the energy sector," says n-tv in the paper by the group around CDU Bundestag members Thomas Heilmann and Kai Whittaker and the earlier ones Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen.
"With all the justified joy, it is clear that overall we will not be able to achieve the more ambitious goals of the EU at the current pace," the MEPs warn.
Therefore, additional measures are required.
In order to compensate for the higher CO2 price it demands and the abolition of tax subsidies for fossil fuels, the group wants to cut energy-related taxes and levies such as the EEG surcharge and vehicle tax.
The bottom line is that this could even be "the greatest tax relief in years," says the paper.
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An innovation offensive is also required to promote climate and environmental protection, as well as “a new regulatory culture”.
It is not about issuing more bans, "but about creating clever rules".
The MPs are calling for legal barriers to the storage of CO2 to be lowered.
While the separation and use or storage of carbon dioxide (CCU or CCS) is being operated successfully in Norway and Iceland, its use in Germany is practically impossible.
That has to change.
The climate balance will be presented on Tuesday morning by Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD) and the President of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Dirk Messner.