Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock wants to make air travel more expensive in the event of a government takeover and work towards the complete abolition of short-haul flights.
Baerbock told the “Bild am Sonntag” newspaper that she wanted to stop dumping prices through a “climate-friendly taxation of flights”.
She thinks it is "not fair that all of our tax money is subsidizing kerosene, while long-distance train journeys are expensive, especially at peak times".
If you travel as a family by train, you should pay less than for the short distance in the plane, demanded Baerbock. Short-haul flights should also no longer exist “in perspective”. In February, the Greens had already praised France's policy of banning short domestic flights. "The federal government should see this as an incentive and push ahead with a new rail offensive," the parliamentary group leader Anton Hofreiter told the FAZ at the time. However, the schedule of the Greens is less ambitious than that of the French. According to Hofreiter, domestic flights will not be largely obsolete until 2035.
The first law that would get her on the way as Chancellor would be "an immediate climate protection program," said Baerbock.
It would also enforce compulsory solar systems for new buildings.
"In future, it must apply in Germany that, as a rule, new buildings will only be built with a solar roof."
In their election manifesto, the Greens made it clear that they would adhere to the requirements of the Paris Climate Agreement.
It should be at the center of a new government under their leadership.
All ministries should act accordingly.
This means, among other things: The Greens want to complete the coal phase-out by 2030, and one million new solar roofs are to be built in the next four years.