Vor ein paar Jahren reichte die Anmerkung, dass nebst Klimaschutz auch Klimaanpassung nicht die allerblödeste Idee wäre, für einen Shitstorm, in noch ein paar weiteren Jahren ist Deutschland dann ja vielleicht bereit für Klimaanlagen und Atomkraftwerke https://t.co/3JwBkZHbpe #Klimaschutz #Klimaanpassung #Energiepolitik
Union faction leader Thorsten Frei has rejected the SPD's proposal to incorporate climate adaptation and heat protection into the Basic Law and warns of potential negative consequences of such a regulation in light of limited budgetary resources and political complexity. (translated)
The interview with political scientist Lena Partzsch discusses the current state of German climate policy, which is facing urgent challenges caused by extreme climate conditions, highlighting the need to shift from voluntary to mandatory climate measures. (translated)
Die SPD will Klimaschutz und Klimaanpassung ins Grundgesetz. Steht aber schon drin. Nun soll eine neue Formulierung wieder NGOs und Bürokratien in Gang setzen, die Steuergelder eintreiben und verteilen dürfen. Ist es Wahnsinn, so hat es doch System - die Gier nach dem Geld #Klimaschutz #SPD #NGOs
The discussion about climate adaptation in Germany, initiated by Environment Minister Carsten Schneider with the proposal to incorporate it as a communal task into the Basic Law, reveals how inadequately the federal government has responded to the historic heat summer and highlights the need for a comprehensive strategy to address extreme weather and infrastructure issues. (translated)
The SPD ministries are demanding a constitutional amendment to enshrine climate adaptation and nature conservation as a communal task, but they are facing skepticism from the Union, while the debate over responsibilities, financial accountability, and support for municipalities is being held intensively. (translated)
The SPD has presented a heat action plan that aims for a constitutional anchoring of climate adaptation in order to respond to the dramatic consequences of climate change in Germany, such as heat-related deaths and drought damage, while the CDU remains skeptical and the distribution of competencies and funding in the federal system plays a central role in the political dispute. (translated)
The SPD aims for an amendment to the Basic Law to enshrine climate adaptation as a joint task of the federal government and the states, and while the Greens and the Left signaled support, the CDU expressed concerns and initially demands the use of existing options for action. (translated)
The SPD has presented a comprehensive action plan against summer heat, which includes, among other things, a national heat protection plan, changes in building planning law, as well as better occupational safety at extreme temperatures, and plans to anchor climate adaptation and nature conservation as a joint task in the Basic Law, while the CDU has reacted more passively so far. (translated)
«Dann wäre es möglich, dass der Bund die Unterstützung für Länder und Gemeinden bei Klimaanpassung, Hitze- und Klimaschutz verstärken kann.»
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig calls for federal financial support for climate adaptation measures and supports the proposal to incorporate heat protection as a shared task into the Basic Law, in order to better protect particularly elderly people and social institutions. (translated)
»Wir unterstützen eine Initiative für eine Grundgesetzänderung, damit der Bund sich an der Finanzierung durch eine Gemeinschaftsaufgabe für Klimaanpassung und Naturschutz beteiligen kann«
The Greens offer their support for the SPD initiative to anchor heat protection in the Basic Law as a joint task for climate adaptation and nature conservation, but emphasize that its implementation is anything but certain given the necessary two-thirds resolution and the resistance from the Union. (translated)
The SPD federal ministries have presented an urgent action plan against the increasing heat, which includes a constitutional amendment to promote climate adaptation and measures for better regulation of construction projects as well as the protection of employees from extreme temperatures. (translated)
SPD federal ministers present a new action plan for climate adaptation, demanding a change to the Basic Law to respond to the challenges of heat and low water, thus posing a challenge to the Union, even though it has already voted against such changes. (translated)
Wir werden übrigens den Kampf gegen den mg Klimawandel als auch den Kampf für Klimaanpassung verlieren. #Klimawandel #Klimaschutz #Klimaanpassung
Environment Minister Carsten Schneider advocates for consolidating the responsibility for heat protection among the federal government, states, and municipalities, and calls for a change to the Basic Law to establish climate adaptation as a collective task, while criticizing the previous measures to combat the effects of climate change, such as dredging rivers, as inadequate. (translated)
We built hospitals without air conditioning. Why? Because there weren't these frequent extreme heatwaves back then. Today we have to retrofit for that reason. That is climate adaptation. At the same time, we need to combat the causes – through climate protection. The FAZ does not take that seriously. (translated)
Federal Environment Minister Carsten Schneider warns that the lack of climate protection costs the German economy nearly half a billion euros every day, and is planning a constitutional amendment to establish climate adaptation as a shared responsibility of the federal government, states, and municipalities. (translated)
The German Association of Cities and the Social Association VdK are calling for heat protection to be enshrined as a community task in the Basic Law in order to protect particularly vulnerable groups and to financially support municipalities in light of extreme temperatures and the high number of heat-related deaths in Germany. (translated)
