Climate protection plan 2050

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The Climate Action Plan 2050 describes the principles and goals of the German Federal Government's climate protection policy with a view to implementing the Paris Agreement . As part of the Paris Agreement, the international community has international law binding to the goal, the global warming significantly (so-called. To below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels to limit two-degree target ) and beyond to make efforts, global Limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. To this end, in the run-up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in 2015 , the European Union introduced a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the EU by 80 to 95 percent compared to 1990 levels by 2050. The national climate protection plan 2050 should show the necessary reduction steps. It was decided by the Federal Cabinet on November 14, 2016 . The Climate Action Plan 2050 itself does not yet contain a concrete plan of measures, but it announced that a program of measures quantified in terms of its mitigation effects is to be presented in 2018. The climate cabinet should ensure that the climate protection plan 2050 is implemented. On October 9, 2019, the Federal Cabinet decided on the Federal Government's Climate Protection Program 2030 to implement the Climate Protection Plan 2050.

development

In order to increase the acceptance of the plan, in contrast to the previous practice, citizens, associations, states and municipalities were asked for ideas and opinions before the plan was drawn up. This public dialogue process was started on June 25, 2015 by Federal Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks . According to the Federal Environment Ministry (BMUB), around 500 citizens developed a total of 77 suggestions at citizens' conferences in five cities and in an online dialogue, and at the same time met the federal states, municipalities and associations in specialist forums and made around 400 suggestions. The resulting proposed measures were finally discussed on March 18 and 19, 2016 at a meeting at the BMUB. The BMUB has evaluated the result of the participation and developed a draft for the plan, which has been examined by the Chancellery since the end of June 2016 after coordination with the Federal Ministry of Economics . Following the changes made by the Chancellery, the BMUB initiated departmental coordination on September 6th. A hearing was held for the associations on September 27, but NABU, BUND, Greenpeace and WWF did not take part in protest.

The completion of the Climate Protection Plan 2050 was originally planned for summer 2016. It should be decided by the cabinet on November 9, 2016. An agreement was finally reached on November 11, 2016, in time for the climate summit in Marrakech. On November 14, 2016, the Federal Cabinet then adopted the Climate Protection Plan 2050 presented by Federal Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks by circulation . The climate protection plan was divided into seven areas:

  • Climate protection in the energy industry
  • Climate-friendly building and living strategy
  • Climate protection and mobility
  • Climate protection in industry and business
  • Climate protection in agriculture
  • Climate protection in land use and forestry
  • Overarching goals and measures

It should be adjusted and updated at regular intervals.

The plan envisages setting up a body called the Commission for Growth, Structural Change and Regional Development (often called the Coal Commission ), which " develops a mix of instruments to support structural change that brings together economic development, structural change, social compatibility and climate protection". The committee should start its work at the beginning of 2018 and, if possible, present results by the end of the same year. The Naturschutzbund Deutschland described the start date as much too late.

Target path of the federal government

Goals of the Climate Action Plan 2050 for the year 2030
Field of action Emissions target for 2030
in million tonnes of CO 2 equivalent 		Reduction
compared to 1990 in%
Energy industry 175 to 183 62 to 61
building 070 to 072 67 to 66
traffic 095 to 098 42 to 40
Industry 140 to 143 51 to 49
Agriculture 058 to 061 34 to 31
Partial total 538 to 557 56 to 54
Others 5 87
Total 543 to 562 56 to 55

With a view to the 2-degree target, the EU has set itself the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80–95% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels. In Germany there is broad consensus that this corridor should be approached ambitiously, i. H. a reduction target of 90 to 95% should be achieved. With the agreed intermediate targets of 40% for 2020, 55% for 2030 and 70% for 2040, the Climate Action Plan 2050 has so far aimed at a reduction of 85% in 2050. With the Paris Declaration, the international community has set a target value for global warming of if possible 1.5 degrees, which requires that the reduction targets be reached earlier.

Appeals and controversies in advance

At a conference of the Alliance for the Future of Industry in February 2016, Economics and Energy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said he would be careful "that this is not a plan that makes a contribution to de-industrialization".

A broad alliance of over fifty environmental, climate and development organizations (including BUND , Greenpeace , WWF , Nabu , Germanwatch , Bread for the World , Misereor and Oxfam ) called on the federal government in April 2016 to change the climate policy To intensify efforts, since the climate protection goals would not be achieved with the previous measures.

A draft developed between the SPD ministries for economy and the environment was sharply criticized by Germanwatch and Greenpeace. The parliamentary group of the Alliance Greens submitted a counter-proposal in a motion. At the same time, the demands of the two ministries were classified as "wishful thinking" by the CSU. Initially, it was expected that the adoption by the federal cabinet planned for summer 2016 would be delayed until September 2016. Even Der Spiegel had reported that a serious conflict would sign off on climate protection plan 2050th

In a statement from the end of July 2016, the Federal Chancellery advocated that the Climate Protection Plan 2050 should not go beyond the national climate targets agreed in the past . A complete conversion of electricity production to renewable energies and the goal of largely greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050 should not be stipulated. The proposals from the draft, which could potentially lead to controversy, should be discussed again, according to the statement.

The German Nature Conservation Ring (DNR) cites internal papers from the Federal Chancellery, according to which there should no longer be a response to new findings from the IPCC . According to the DNR, the Chancellery would consistently drive the draft of the climate protection plan against the wall. The FAZ even considered the draft of the climate protection plan "for the time being cashed".

The Climate Alliance Germany called on the federal government to improve the draft of the Climate Protection Plan 2050 in order to prevent the “last major climate policy project of this federal government from becoming obsolete”.

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety: Hendricks starts a dialogue on the Climate Protection Plan 2050 . June 25, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
  2. ^ The Federal Government : Draft of the German Sustainability Strategy - New Edition 2016 . May 31, 2016. Accessed June 1, 2016.
  3. ↑ Climate Protection Plan 2050 (2nd edition). Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, February 2019, accessed on September 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Climate protection program 2030: Investments in the mobility transition - Federal Ministry of Finance - Topics. Federal Ministry of Finance, October 9, 2019, accessed on December 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Stefan Schultz: Climate Protection Plan 2050: Ministry of the Environment is planning a rapid phase-out of coal . In: Spiegel Online . May 4, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
  6. ↑ Climate protection plan 2050: grace period for coal . In: Spiegel Online . June 30, 2016. Retrieved July 24, 2016.
  7. ↑ Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety: Climate Protection Plan 2050 . September 6, 2016. Archived from the original on September 24, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 24, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmub.bund.de
  8. ↑ Environmental associations stay away from the hearing on the Climate Action Plan 2050 in protest , NABU, September 27, 2016.
  9. ↑ Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety: Citizens, associations, states and municipalities present ideas for the Climate Protection Plan 2050 . March 19, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
  10. ↑ Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety: Greenhouse Gas Neutral Germany 2050 . Retrieved May 29, 2016.
  11. ^ The German Plan for Climate Protection , Spiegel Online, September 27, 2016.
  12. ↑ Federal government reaches agreement on climate protection dispute , Der Tagesspiegel, November 8, 2016.
  13. ↑ Sigmar Gabriel snubs Barbara Hendricks , Der Tagesspiegel, November 9, 2016.
  14. ↑ Federal government agrees on climate protection plan , FAZ, November 11, 2016.
  15. ↑ Climate Protection Plan 2050: Cabinet adopts guide to a climate-neutral Germany - BMU press release . In: bmu.de . ( bmu.de [accessed June 29, 2018]).
  16. ↑ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Germany finally has a climate protection plan | DW | 11/14/2016. Retrieved June 29, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Climate Protection Plan 2050 . Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, November 2016 (PDF).
  18. ↑ NABU: At least a climate protection plan - albeit a torn one . Naturschutzbund Germany, 11 November 2016.
  19. ↑ The Climate Protection Plan 2050 - The German Long-Term Climate Protection Strategy. Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, October 5, 2017, accessed on February 27, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Political options for climate protection and the exit from coal , by PAO-YU OEI, Böll-Brief, November 2016
  21. ↑ Alfons Frese: Alliance for Industry: The new concerted action . In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 19, 2016. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  22. ↑ Bärbel Krauss: Climate Agreement in New York: Business has to say goodbye to illusions in climate protection . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . April 20, 2016. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  23. ↑ German civil society's climate protection plan 2050 - other organizations sign . Climate Alliance Germany. April 26, 2016. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
  24. ↑ Climate Protection Plan 2050, draft , BMUB, June 21, 2016
  25. ↑ Climate plan 2050: Forgot coal exit , klimaretter.info, June 29, 2016
  26. ↑ Climate Protection Plan 2050: Mission missed , Germanwatch, June 29, 2016
  27. ↑ Climate Protection Plan 2050 without specific coal phase-out targets , Greenpeace, June 29, 2016
  28. ↑ Application: Climate Protection Plan 2050 - Real Climate Protection Starts Today , Alliance 90 / The Greens parliamentary group, June 21, 2016.
  29. ↑ a b CSU steps on the brakes in the Climate Protection Plan 2050 , Merkur, June 29, 2016.
  30. ↑ CSU against the climate protection plan , Der Spiegel, June 25, 2016.
  31. ↑ Susanne Schwarz: Chancellor lets sawing the climate protection plan , klimaretter.info, July 30, 2016
  32. ↑ DNR criticizes the irresponsible dilution policy of the climate protection plan ( memento of the original from August 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , DNR, August 26, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dnr.de
  33. ↑ Andreas Mihm: Environment Minister Hendricks wants to combat large mast systems , FAZ, August 24, 2016.
  34. ↑ Climate Alliance Germany calls for significant improvements to the Climate Protection Plan 2050 , Climate Alliance, September 8, 2016.