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Immediate Climate Protection Program: Time is Running Out for Wissing

(dpa) According to the current regulation, the Minister of Transport would have to present an immediate program by Monday due to missed climate targets. With a reform, this would no longer be necessary. But will it come in time?

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von Nadine Bradl

For Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP), time is pressing: By Monday, according to the current legal situation, he would have to present an immediate program for more climate protection in the transport sector. This is because the reform of the Federal Climate Protection Act, passed by the Bundestag and Bundesrat, which would relieve Wissing of this obligation, has not yet been signed by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Therefore, it is not in effect. There are still ongoing reviews of the reform, said a spokeswoman for Steinmeier to the German Press Agency in Berlin. The aim is to complete these by the start of the parliamentary summer break in mid-July.

Transportation Sector Misses Targets

In April, the Expert Council on Climate Issues determined that the transportation sector had once again missed its annual target and had emitted significantly more greenhouse gases than planned. With the reform of the Climate Protection Act, the focus will no longer be on meeting targets in individual sectors, but rather on the total reduction across all sectors. This does not change the climate targets themselves: Germany is still to become greenhouse gas neutral by 2045, meaning that it should not emit more greenhouse gases than can be offset.

Translated automatically from German.
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