Habeck wants to triple the pace of climate protection

Berlin Federal Economics and Climate Protection Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) wants to pave the way to climate neutrality in the country with a large-scale legislative initiative. The first legislative package is to be passed by the federal cabinet in the spring, and another will follow in the summer.

“We are starting with a considerable backlog,” said Habeck on Tuesday when he presented his immediate measures. It is about “getting faster by a factor of three”. The previous path would lead to a clear missed target. The task is “gigantic”.

Habeck wants to focus his efforts on a drastic acceleration of the expansion of renewable energies. Habeck promised the industry climate protection agreements. With these contracts, the state offsets the additional costs of climate-neutral production processes.

If things go on as before, by the end of the decade Germany will have reduced its climate-damaging greenhouse gases by only 50 percent instead of the targeted 65 percent compared to 1990, said Habeck. “That is, in numbers, 200 million tons too much.”