Climate protection act : Svenja Schulze wants to force to Save the Minister of CO2

the Federal environment Minister, Svenja Schulze (SPD) want to force other departments by law with the threat of cuts in the budget and immediately programs on climate protection. Should the Federal costs, because of European commitments to be missed, would keep these issues "in proportion to the degree of non-compliance" in the house of the responsible Federal ministries estimated, according to a draft of a climate protection act, the daily mirror Background.

In the draft it says literally: "on The basis of his business unit, a sector largely responsible Ministry to ensure compliance with the annual emission volumes responsible." The respective Ministry should take the necessary national measures in order to reduce CO2 to comply with the ceilings. The distribution of responsibilities within the Federal government remain of it but unaffected.

fixed amounts of permissible greenhouse gas emissions for the sectors energy, industry, transport, building, agriculture, as well as "waste and miscellaneous". The Minister should submit for their field programs, which are decided by the Federal government. Concrete measures in does not want to prescribe Schulze so the colleagues.

transport, industry and energy, must reduce reduce

Some examples of the planned emission reductions: The transport of its emissions by 145 million tonnes of CO2 Equivalents in the year 2021 to 95 million tonnes in the year 2030. From 1990 to 2018, the emissions in this area were not decreased, as the Federal government plans, but even slightly increased. The industry should press after the bill for their emissions by 182 million metric tons of CO2 Equivalent in the year 2021 to 140 million. For the energy sector, the year-on-year to 2022 will be elected with 257 million tonnes, which should go back up to 2030, 175 million tons.

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If a sector fails its target, is to be decided by the Federal government, as a rule, within six months of an emergency programme, which, in turn, must be within six months of being implemented. The sector objectives in the climate protection plan by 2016, yet, they are not binding. The law, as Schulze has presented the beginning of the week the Chancellery to the Early coordination would change that.

In the draft, it means that greater efforts were needed to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and "substantial burdens" of the Federal budget to avert. In addition to individual measures in all sectors, an overarching framework was necessary. Clear legal regulations were responsible for planning security. Germany has not only national goals, but obligations within the EU. This to-be-missed, must Berlin to buy pollution rights. That could cost the Federal budget by 2030, up to 41 billion euros. These calculations by the Öko-Institut der Tagesspiegel Background had reported on Wednesday exclusively.

From fiscal, but mainly for reasons of climate protection, Schulze plans to reduce by 2050 greenhouse gas emissions by "at least 95 percent". So far, the coalition had called only a margin of 80 to 95 percent. In addition, Schulze year accurate CO2 wants to pretend Budgets. A sector emits more or less carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases than allowed, to be credited the difference on the following Budgets.

New expert panel for climate issues

The Bundestag shall, in accordance with the draft law, a seven-member "expert panel for climate issues," among other things, climate protection measures, the effectiveness of checks. The panel is to submit in mid-December a report.
The climate protection act is the largest and most important projects of the Ministry of environment in this parliamentary term. There is already a dispute in the coalition. Union politicians want to act, no framework, how Schulze plans, but only measures laws for the individual areas. Currently, a working group on climate protection in the transport advises that a proposed Commission for the building sector, has put the coalition on the ice.

the draft law of the Federal the goal of the Federal administration to organize the 2030 climate-neutral. To achieve this goal, wants to introduce the Federal government by 2020 at the latest, appropriate measures for the authorities of the Federal government and other Federal institutions. The Federal administration is to the fore in particular through the efficient use of energy and the choice of seeds, if possible, climate-friendly means of transport. A few days ago it became known that the Federal government uses virtually no E-cars.

Left provides Schulze support

The political responses to the bill were expected to be very different: lower Saxony's Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD), warned the Union not to block the plans Schulze. "The climate protection act is in the coalition agreement," he said of the editors ' network of Germany. You could talk seriously about the Details of the law. "But you can't make the climate protection act simply out of the question."

Anton Hofreiter, Chairman of the Greens in the Bundestag, said: "It is good that the Minister of the environment drives their Cabinet colleagues when it comes to climate protection. The decisive factor will be whether Schulze.“ It would be absolutely unacceptable if the Federal government would bring no real climate-protection legislation on the way.

The Left-climate expert Lorenz Gösta Beutin has called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), to support Schulze. The Left offer Schulze in the Parliament their support for an ambitious climate protection law.

in Contrast, the FDP criticized-climate politicians Lukas Köhler the draft as a "climate-planned economy". Fixed greenhouse gas quantities for the energy and industry sectors were "totally absurd", because their CO2 emissions through the EU emissions trading was already capped in Europe. (with dpa)

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