Press reviews
The Greens have one “Immediate climate protection program” submitted. In it, the party calls for a climate ministry with the right to veto. Commentators are skeptical of the plans. The press reviews.
Climate protection, immediately and with the right of veto – that is a central point from the “Immediate climate protection program” the Greens, the Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock and her co-party leader Robert Habeck on Tuesday in the nature reserve “Biesenthal basin” presented near Berlin. After the bumpy start to the election campaign, the party is now trying to bring its self-declared core competency to the fore as a crucial issue. Motto: Full power for climate protection – and don’t waste years like the incumbent government.
Commentators dare to doubt whether it will work out. “Theory and practice – sometimes there is still a gap here with the Greens”, thinks about the “badish newspaper”. the “New Osnabrück Newspaper” sees in the project “especially symbolic politics”. The press reviews.
The media response to the “Immediate climate protection program”
“New Osnabrück Newspaper”: “If even rich Germany does not make its contribution to the 1.5 degree target, who should make it? A (green?) Climate protection ministry is not needed for this. The announcement by SPD candidate Olaf Scholz, who would make the issue a top priority as Chancellor, is more convincing. Baerbock’s calls for the speed limit or the burnout in 2030 are primarily symbolic politics. The decisive lever for avoiding CO2 is CO2 pricing.”
“Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”: “All you have to do is come up with the ‘biggest climate change package’ that has ever existed ‘. It doesn’t get a size smaller, because otherwise the Greens would have to fear for their brand core (and their candidate for chancellor). In return, they accept that the Union, FDP and SPD can claim that climate policy is not just seen as a promising radical cure.”
“badish newspaper”: “The Greens want to set the most important course for the climate change within 100 days with a task force. However, this team would be led by a climate protection ministry, which in the meantime, at best, orders office furniture. Theory and practice – sometimes there is still a gap here with the Greens.”
“Reutlinger General-Anzeiger”: It is only logical that the party is now focusing on climate protection. The flood catastrophe in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the heat waves and forest fires in southern Europe show that climate change not only threatens poor countries, but can also hit everyone with tremendous impact. So the party would do well to focus on its core competence topic. The plans for a climate protection ministry as well as the significantly accelerated expansion of renewable energies and an earlier coal phase-out make one thing clear: In a government with green participation, climate protection would be the paramount issue.
“Southgerman newspaper”: “In order to curb global warming, it is essential that greenhouse gases remain within a limited budget, so ‘above-planned’ emissions should therefore be checked. A climate protection ministry may not be a good idea for other reasons. Germany can only achieve the goal of becoming climate neutral if the new federal government understands the climate crisis as a joint task – and not as an outsourced area.”
“The world”: “The Greens see themselves tasked by the climate. They want to ‘turn the federal budget into a climate budget’. The country would have to be completely rebuilt: industry, traffic, agriculture, landscapes, houses. But instead of problematizing the immense costs of the transformation, the Greens invoke ‘prosperity and security’ that would result from the conversion. A hope that everyone would like to share, but the ‘immediate program’ reads like a naive wish list for climate protectors, without any side effects.”
“Ludwigsburg district newspaper”: “Green climate protection will cost a lot of people and the economy. There should be compensation for the poor with a minimum wage of twelve euros. But many companies will hardly be able to pay that. There will be political resistance in coalition negotiations, for example, against unraveling the coal compromise, tripling expansion targets for wind and solar energy, or creating super climate protection with the right of veto. In any case, the Greens will not be able to enforce everything in a coalition. You make maximum demands in order to have a lot of bargaining power.”
“The daily mirror”: “Apart from the fact that such a veto power could slow down the already slow political apparatus even more, the idea is potentially radical. If such a ministry took its task seriously, it would have to ban every new motorway, every production of natural gas. That should put a massive strain on the coalition work with no matter which party.”
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