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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann sees himself confirmed by the Karlsruhe ruling on accelerating climate protection.

"Climate protection is not a political playground, but a constitutional necessity," said the Green on Thursday on the sidelines of the coalition negotiations with the CDU in Stuttgart.

The Greens would have wished for greater goals in the negotiations with the Union and the SPD on the 2019 climate protection package.

"But more far-reaching steps have failed because of the legislature, the federal government," recalled Kretschmann.

The Federal Constitutional Court obliged the legislature to regulate the targets for the reduction of climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions for the period after 2030 in more detail by the end of next year.

Several climate protection activists had lodged complaints and some were successful.

Kretschmann said that the instruments for climate protection should have a “strong steering effect”.

“It depends on the next ten years.

That is our guideline for the country. "

In the coalition negotiations, the path to an "ambitious climate protection program" for the next five years was recorded.

"A program that you will not find in any other federal state," explained Kretschmann.

However, it had recently been said that green-black had to make cuts in climate protection projects because of corona-related holes in the household.

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CDU state chief and interior minister Thomas Strobl said: “The highest German court fully encourages us in our Baden-Württemberg path.

We want to make Baden-Württemberg the number one climate protection state with all our might. "

The Karlsruhe ruling also shows «that we are doing it correctly and well in terms of craftsmanship in the coalition negotiations.

We want to be climate neutral by 2040 at the latest. "

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