“Greens sacrifice climate protection”
Neubauer sees Germany on a 4.4 degree path
04/16/2023, 00:00
While the last nuclear power plants in Germany are going offline, the Greens have had to put up with harsh criticism from climate protection groups. Fridays for Future activist Neubauer thinks Germany is on the 4.4-degree path because fatal compromises are made within the traffic lights.
The climate activist Luisa Neubauer from the Fridays for Future movement sees Germany on a dramatic path of global warming if the federal government leaves it with the current climate protection measures. “Current calculations show that we are on a 4.4 degree path in Germany,” said Neubauer to the editorial network Germany.
Neubauer criticized the federal government’s most recent climate decisions as a “turnaround”. Since 2019, there has been a steady improvement in climate policy due to the pressure from Fridays for Future. “Now we are seeing that at the height of the escalation of the climate crisis, the government decides to abandon core elements of Germany’s most important climate protection law,” said Neubauer, referring to the reform of the climate protection law that had been decided.
“Constantly new compromises”
In the federal government, the trend has prevailed to continuously present new compromises that fall below the 1.5 degree limit. Neubauer called for “radical and rapid climate protection” from the governing parties and at the same time called on civil society and business to get involved in more climate protection.
In particular, she accused the Greens of sacrificing the federal government’s climate protection goals in order to stay in power: “At the moment we are feeling that parts of the Greens see an or between real climate protection and staying in power,” she told RND. The constant pressure of the next election stands in the way of progress in climate policy because it is always assumed that climate protection measures will cost a percentage. That pulls the party and the climate movement apart. Neubauer added: “In this legislative period, parts of the Greens leadership have developed a tendency to confuse concessions to more climate destruction with statesmanlike politics.” That is fatal.