Climate protection
How, specifically, Germany’s climate protection plan?
Germany supported the Paris climate agreement, and the phasing out of fossil energies. In the climate protection plan 2050, the government describes the long-term measures. Critics complain, however the lack of intermediate targets.
Before the next climate conference in November in Morocco, the Federal government wants to adopt the climate protection plan 2050. The Federal Ministry for the environment put now a
A draft for further government coordination.
The aim of the climate protection plan, the “far-reaching greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050” in Germany. Thus, Germany should make its contribution to global warming to stay well below two degrees Celsius, and preferably 1.5 degrees limited.
The appropriate restructuring of the economy and society in Germany up to the middle of the century was “a big challenge, but doable”, in the introduction to the current Version. For the comprehensive energy renovation up to 2050, the time was short, however. “The longer the Transformation is delayed, the higher the costs, burdens and economic risks.”
The climate protection plan, the lead Ministry for the environment, not to be understood as a rigid tool, but as a blueprint for the direction that should be adjusted in regular intervals. According to the Ministry, a long-term and strategic approach to climate protection that relies on Innovation and modernization, an engine of prosperity and employment. In addition, early structural change to increase the “competitiveness of Germany in a world economy, which focuses on greenhouse gas neutrality.”
Especially fossil energy and greenhouse gas emissions. By 2050, the government wants to change the power supply.
Energy supply without fossil fuels
The majority of greenhouse gases arise from the use of coal, Oil and Gas, power and heat production and in transport. According to the climate protection plan is expected to be reduced with the help of efficiency measures, the energy consumption and the remaining energy demand be met with renewable energies.
By 2050 at the latest, the corresponding transition in the energy economy in the building sector and in the area of mobility is to be achieved. In order to achieve the objectives and to avoid failed investments by energy suppliers, industry and building owners, it needs according to the climate protection plan, a corresponding long-term planning and orientation.
Criticism of the lack of intermediate targets
The climate protection plan outlines the technical possibilities and the required actions by 2050. Interim targets with a timetable for the exit strategy from Coal, or the transition to Zero-emission vehicles. Some of the controversial requirements were removed from the original design.
With concerned, in particular representatives of coal, automotive, and agricultural industries to consider the climate protection plan. The fear of dwindling profits, in part, large-scale and so they also make pressure on the policy. On the other hand, are not welcomed there, too, the international climate targets set, and clear guidelines for the long-term conversion desired.
To the achievement of the Paris climate objectives of the HTW in Berlin is, according to the calculations, a lot of time.
A broad social Alliance of over 100 organisations from the fields of environment, development, Church, youth, animal welfare, and trade unions urged
in a joint climate-Manifest Chancellor Merkel now on, the climate protection plan to significantly improve. “The climate goals are non-binding, partially weak, and you will not be able to be achieved with the described measures,” says spokeswoman Regine Günther from WWF.
Faction leader of the Greens in the Bundestag, Anton Hofreiter accused the CDU and the SPD, that they are sabotaging the climate protection plan”, where you can only”. In addition, the Federal government lose “economic opportunities for Germany”.
For the climate policy spokeswoman for the Left party in the Bundestag, Eva Bulling-Schröter, Business as usual may no longer be “” given global warming, the need of the hour. “After the Paris climate agreement, the Federal government makes more, however, than as a historically acclaimed global climate protection goals would not have been decided,” said Bulling-Schröter.