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Erfurt (dpa / th) - Thuringia's Environment Minister Anja Siegesmund (Greens) has rated the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court on the Climate Protection Act as a slap in the face for the federal government.
Due to the insufficient capacity of the grand coalition in Berlin to act, Karlsruhe is taking over the political agenda on one of the most important issues of the present, Siegesmund said on Thursday in Erfurt.
From the point of view of the Federal Constitutional Court, the Federal Climate Protection Act falls short.
The Karlsruhe judges obliged the legislature to regulate the reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions for the period after 2030 in more detail by the end of next year.
The court has made it clear that political measures must not continue to affect the livelihoods of future generations, said Siegesmund.
Two years before the federal law, Thuringia presented a climate law with clear guidelines on greenhouse gas emissions even after 2030.
These are to be reduced by up to 80 percent by 2040 and by up to 95 percent by 2050 (compared to 1990).
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The Federal Climate Protection Act was passed by the Bundestag and Bundesrat at the end of 2019.
For individual areas such as traffic, agriculture or buildings, it specifies how many greenhouse gases they are allowed to emit in which year.
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