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Berlin (dpa) - The Greens are demanding that the federal government double investments in climate protection.
Eight billion euros by 2025 - “that would be the minimum” that Chancellor Angela Merkel should announce today at the so-called Petersberg Climate Dialogue, said Vice-President of the Greens, Oliver Krischer, in the newspapers of the Funke media group.
The climate policy group spokeswoman Lisa Badum made a similar statement in the “Augsburger Allgemeine”.
The 12th Petersberg Climate Dialogue, which has been in session since Monday - a series of ministerial meetings named after the first conference location near Bonn - is entering the decisive phase this Thursday and Friday.
Around 40 specialist ministers from all over the world will then come together by video conference to negotiate the concrete implementation of the 2015 Paris Climate Protection Agreement.
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) should be connected around 2 p.m. and will then probably address the new climate goals of the federal government.
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According to the government's plans, Germany should become climate-neutral by 2045 instead of 2050 - i.e. only emit as much greenhouse gas as can be bound again. On the way there should be new intermediate goals, including a greenhouse gas reduction of 65 instead of 55 percent by 2030. To date, these emissions have fallen by 40 percent compared to 1990. The change in the climate law should be passed in the cabinet in the coming week.
That is not enough for the Greens. "Our numbers are a tad more ambitious: We consider 70 percent CO2 savings to be necessary by 2030," said party leader Robert Habeck to the Funke newspapers. He called on the government to back up the new climate goals with concrete measures: specifically with a rapid expansion of renewable energies, a reduction in environmentally harmful subsidies and a higher price for the emission of climate-damaging carbon dioxide (CO2).
The scientist Elmar Krieger from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) also urged the Düsseldorf “Rheinische Post” (Thursday) for concrete measures.
“This includes a coordinated tightening of CO2 prices both in the European emissions trading system and nationally for transport and buildings.
In addition, additional measures are necessary to accelerate the market introduction of low-emission technologies and thus increase the effectiveness of CO2 prices.
The new goals will also mean, for example, achieving the most extensive phase-out of coal-fired power generation before 2030, ”he said.
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The climate activists of the Fridays for Future movement criticized “empty announcements”.
Her spokeswoman Carla Reemtsma told the "Rheinische Post": "Today's goal is to reject the systematic fight against the climate crisis and the 1.5 degree limit anchored in the Paris climate agreement."
The Federal Association of Consumer Organizations (VZBV) demanded a fair distribution of the costs.
The tax revenue from the CO2 pricing should be fully reimbursed to the consumer, said VZBV boss Klaus Müller the "Handelsblatt" (Thursday).
This can be implemented either by means of a “climate check in the same amount per person” or by lowering the surcharge under the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG).
The Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) criticized that the government had not yet created the right framework for the implementation of the previous goals.
"Germany should not run ahead without other countries in Europe and around the world also stepping up their efforts," VDA President Hildegard Müller told the Funke newspapers.
"Achieving climate neutrality will cost Germany trillions."
The basic requirement is an industrial location that can also generate the money for the renovation.
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