Kubicki: Climate Adaptation Does Not Need to Be Enshrined in the Constitution
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The ministers of the SPD want to anchor climate adaptation in the Basic Law. The CDU is against it – and this has not only to do with the climate.
The new Minister of State opposes Minister of the Environment Schneider. He wants to define the fight against climate impacts as a federal-state task. Social and environmental associations praise the idea.
The consequences of climate change are not a future, but present, said capital correspondent Dietrich Karl Mäurer on NDR Info.
The EU is showing signs of focusing more on adapting to a warmer climate in addition to reducing emissions. In Germany, climate adaptation could even be enshrined in the constitution as a joint responsibility of the federal and state governments.
FDP leader Wolfgang Kubicki considers the SPD's plan to enshrine climate adaptation in the Basic Law unnecessary. The protection of natural resources is already enshrined as a state objective in the Basic Law, Kubicki told the "Rheinische Post." The SPD's primary aim, he said, is to establish climate adaptation as a shared responsibility, enabling the federal government to co-finance tasks undertaken by the states. The proposal, however, is esse…
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