The Bundestag factions of the SPD, Greens and FDP have agreed on the long-controversial reform of the climate protection law. With the agreement, far-reaching interventions such as weekend driving bans for drivers in order to achieve climate goals in the transport sector are likely to be off the table.
The solar package is intended to remove bureaucratic hurdles for the expansion of solar energy in Germany and thus advance the expansion. The Greens and the SPD feared that the Climate Protection Act would result in a loss of binding force, and criticized the plans as watering down the law.. The traffic light parties have been able to reach an agreement on the climate Protection law. The greens gave up their blockade. FDP leader Christian Lindner celebrates “more cost efficiency”. “By changing the Climate protection Act, we are turning German climate policy upside down, because from now on all that matters is that the climate goals are achieved overall and no longer where emissions are reduced,” says FDP deputy Lukas Köhler.