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Climate activist Neubauer calls for the resignation of Transport Minister Wissing

The climate protection activist from "Fridays for Future", Luisa Neubauer, certifies that Transport Minister Volker Wissing has failed in the fight against global warming and calls for the resignation of the FDP politician.

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Climate activist Neubauer calls for the resignation of Transport Minister Wissing

The climate protection activist from "Fridays for Future", Luisa Neubauer, certifies that Transport Minister Volker Wissing has failed in the fight against global warming and calls for the resignation of the FDP politician. In the past year it has become clear that Wissing is engaged in "well-documented refusal to work", she told the German Press Agency (dpa).

Instead of living up to his primary responsibility in the cabinet and implementing coalition promises and international obligations, his work fell through with an internal review by a commission of experts.

Neubauer, who is a member of the Greens, also criticized that the climate targets in transport had been radically “undermined”. This was shown by the Federal Environment Agency's official estimate of greenhouse gas emissions last week. "This failure must have consequences," she demanded. "We expect a word of power from Chancellor Olaf Scholz and demand the resignation of Volker Wissing."

With a view to the urgent warnings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) about the rapidly escalating climate crisis, Neubauer also referred to the democratic duty of all federal ministers to comply with their own laws, such as the Climate Protection Act. The UN goals and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are clear, and the federal government has also decided to comply with the 1.5 degree limit.

"Translated, that means: We don't have another legislative period to waste on a transport minister who refuses to do his job."

The world's climate protection goals are in danger of being missed if the climate-damaging greenhouse gases are not drastically reduced within this decade, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in a report on Monday. The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels (1850-1900) is virtually impossible, according to the report. The 1.5 degrees could even be exceeded in the first half of the 2030s.

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