Climate protection measures: Neubauer calls the Union program “shocking”


Climate protection measures
Neubauer calls the union program “shocking”

Yes to innovations and new technologies, no to bans and “socialist redistribution” – when it comes to climate protection, the Union leaves a lot in the rough in its new election program. Environmental activists pass a crushing verdict.

Climate protectors and environmental groups criticize the election manifesto of the CDU and CSU as completely inadequate in the fight against global warming. Luisa Neubauer from the climate protection movement Fridays for Future told the “Rheinische Post”: “This party program is a 139-page refusal to protect us from the climate crisis and to meet the 1.5-degree target Acknowledging the greatest crisis, let alone tackling it. Shocking. “

Experts agree that much more has to be done around the world by 2030 if global warming is to remain well below two degrees – as agreed by almost 200 countries in Paris in 2015. The earth has already heated up by around 1.2 degrees compared to pre-industrial times. The already visible fatal consequences: Depending on the region, there are more heat waves and droughts as well as heavy rain, storms, storms and floods.

Neubauer, who is a member of the Greens, criticized that the Union remains far too vague on climate protection. “While people in Germany are experiencing first-hand what an unleashed climate crisis means – namely heat waves with tropical nights, health and economic burdens – the CDU is seriously publishing an” unleashing package for the economy “- without naming specific climate protection measures.”

Carla Reemtsma, spokeswoman for Fridays for Future, made a similar statement. “With its election manifesto, the Union has decided against every single measure that would reduce emissions,” she told the Watson portal. “The Union is sticking to the coal phase-out in 2038, tax breaks for coal, oil and gas as well as natural gas as a” bridging technology “. The election manifesto is a continuation of the stalemate in climate policy that has led to the current climate crisis and which will escalate further.

Martin Kaiser, executive director of Greenpeace, said that the CDU and CSU remained too vague in view of the existential threat posed by the climate crisis and the extinction of species. “Armin Laschet continues to avoid the unmistakable: Climate protection absolutely needs a faster phase-out of coal, a firm phase-out of the combustion engine and clear expansion goals for renewable energies.” The Union leaves terrifyingly open how it wants to protect nature in the future and ensure its recovery.

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