Munich (dpa / lby) – Accompanied by a lot of criticism from the opposition, the coalition of CSU and Free Voters pushed through the revision of their climate protection law in the state parliament. Environment Minister Thorsten Faithr (Free Voters) defended the law in the debate on Tuesday: Climate protection is being tackled with all our might and renewable energies are being promoted – “to an extent like no other federal state,” he said. “The Free State is doing its job justice.”
The SPD and Greens in particular, on the other hand, again sharply criticized the new law and the climate policy of the state government: Above all, binding measures were missing. In the past few years, there has already been “zero progress in climate policy by this state government,” criticized SPD parliamentary group leader Florian von Brunn.
The Green MP Martin Stümpfig described the law as “outside hui, inside ugh”. He rates the goal of climate neutrality by 2040 positively, but on closer inspection there is “nothing at all” in the law. “This climate law really isn’t worth the paper it’s written on,” Stümpfig said. Various experts had also criticized the law as insufficient at an expert hearing in the state parliament.
The trigger for the new version of the Climate Protection Act was a decision by the Federal Constitutional Court. More than a year ago, the court criticized the federal climate protection law and called for improvements to more binding targets for reducing emissions. As a result, Bavaria also announced an amendment to its law, which had only recently been completed. However, concrete measures for more climate protection are not included in the law itself, but in a separate package of measures.
