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Jürgen Trittin, Member of the Green Party and former Federal Environment Minister, is critical of the current climate initiatives of other parties.

The proposals from the Union and the SPD are for him "an indictment," said Trittin the news portal t-online.

“This is the desperate attempt to say goodbye to years of denial of reality”.

The federal government announced on Wednesday that it would tighten its climate targets.

Accordingly, by 2030, greenhouse gas emissions are to be reduced by 65 percent compared to 1990 instead of the previously planned 55 percent.

A new interim target of minus 88 percent is to be set for 2040.

The climate neutrality so far targeted for 2050 should be achieved by 2045.

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The new climate protection law is expected to be discussed in the cabinet next week.

The government came under pressure after the Federal Constitutional Court criticized the 2019 climate law as inadequate and demanded reform by the end of 2022.

The goals also had to be adapted to new EU requirements.

Trittin believes that it is unlikely that the coalition parties could now pose a threat to the Greens on their core issue: “Now the biggest brakes are suddenly promising things that they fought six months ago.

There is only real climate protection with the original, ”says Trittin.

"For the first time black or green"

Trittin, on the other hand, was reluctant to comment on the rising polls of the Greens: “We know that you can't rely on anything - neither for good nor for bad.” However, it was “black or green for the first time”.

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According to a recent survey on behalf of the RTL / ntv trend barometer, the Greens are also leading the polls in the second week after Annalena Baerbock was nominated as candidate for chancellor.

Accordingly, the party in front of the Union is currently the strongest force.

If there were now federal elections, the Greens would get 28 percent.

The CDU / CSU with Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet has improved slightly by one percentage point (23 percent) but is still in second place, 5 percentage points behind.

The SPD gains one percentage point (14 percent), the Left (6 percent) and the AfD (10 percent) each lose one percentage point.