Munich (dpa/lby) – According to experts, the draft of the new Bavarian climate protection law is insufficient to achieve the stated goals. “The law must create a framework for a transformation. It’s not enough to simply name numbers,” said Christian Essers, Director of Global Energy Procurement at Wacker Chemie AG, on Thursday at the hearing in the Bavarian state parliament. The law must be underpinned by programs and measures in order to achieve the sporting goals.
The invited climate councilor Johannes Gnädinger also emphasized that there were no binding demands and help for the municipalities so that they could shoulder the tasks of climate protection together. He also criticized the fact that there are no quantitative specifications for almost all measures. “It was the same issue two years ago, so no change.”
Julia Dade, board member of the Bund Jugend Deutschland, also accused the state government of not wanting to achieve the goals it had formulated itself. Indications for this are the lack of a right to sue and the lack of a basis for financing. Ultimately, the state government prefers to shift responsibility to the federal and EU levels instead of completely abolishing the 10H distance rule for new wind turbines.
Dade went on to say, “Young people aren’t afraid of wind turbines littering the landscape,” she said. But young people are afraid of the consequences of climate change. “The changed climate protection law does not do justice to the responsibility. It is about our future.” The maximum non-binding nature of the law is intolerable.
