The German Environmental Aid had demanded a cease and desist from BMW. She wants the carmaker to stop selling combustion engines by 2030. Now the company is reacting and referring to politics.
BMW rejects the demand of the German Environmental Aid (DUH), from 2030 onwards, no more cars with gasoline or diesel engines will be sold worldwide.
The association had demanded a cease and desist from BMW by Monday at the latest and threatened to file a lawsuit. The Munich-based car manufacturer now writes in its reply letter that the democratically legitimized parliaments decided on the way to achieve the climate goals. The legislature weighs up all the social concerns concerned. A legal dispute between two private parties cannot replace this democratic process.
Therefore, BMW rejects the alleged injunction claim of the DUH, it says in the letter, excerpts from the German press agency. A BMW spokesman did not want to comment on this. As a contribution to limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees, BMW wants to reduce the CO2 emissions of its cars by 40 percent from raw materials through production to the end of use by 2030.
The DUH and Greenpeace had sent Mercedes-Benz and the VW group the same injunctive relief. The energy group Wintershall Dea is to undertake to DUH not to develop any more oil or gas fields from 2026.
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