Environmental activists, who want to force car manufacturers BMW and Daimler to accelerate their transition to a less polluting industrial model, have filed two complaints against the groups in Germany, an environmental NGO announced on Tuesday.

Believing that BMW and Daimler, manufacturer of Mercedes-Benz, violate "the fundamental right to climate protection", the action is aimed at "enforcing the end of diesel and gasoline cars from 2030", according to a press release from the organization Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH), one of the leading German environmental associations.

Climate protection, a fundamental right

These complaints, lodged with the courts of Stuttgart and Munich, the headquarters of each of the groups, were announced in early September by DUH and Greenpeace.

The two NGOs had said to allow the builders a period of a few weeks to present their defense.

The first German manufacturer, Volkwagen, must also be the subject of a similar appeal if it does not respond to the injunction of environmentalists by the end of October.

These lawsuits are a first, explain the organizations, because they are based on the decision handed down in the spring by the Constitutional Court of Karlsruhe which made climate protection a fundamental right in Germany.

Diesel outlet

The highest judicial body in the country had thus forced Angela Merkel's government to strengthen its climate objectives, as part of an emergency procedure.

Under pressure from ever more demanding environmental standards, manufacturers have almost all unveiled a release schedule for diesel and gasoline vehicles, several years ahead and rarely on all international markets at the same time.

Daimler reacted Tuesday, explaining in a statement to have "clearly accepted the objectives of the Paris agreement on the climate and the need to decarbonize the automobile industry.

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